Body Stat

[dan&pam]

1. It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

2. One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).

3. The average man's penis is three times the length of his thumb.

4. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

5. A woman's heart beats faster than a man's.

6. There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.

7. Women blink twice as often as men.

8. The average person's skin weighs twice as much as the brain.

9. Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

10. If saliva cannot dissolve something, you cannot taste it.

11. Women reading this will be finished by now.

12. Men who read this are still busy checking their thumbs.

[toging]

[carla15]

[grahamw48]

All true.

[Doc Alan]

Very funny ! The internet is full of these "facts" ( rules of thumb ).
1. 7 seconds for food from mouth to stomach is the average time
2. A human hair can support about 100g ; the hair would be pulled out and could not support anything like 3 kg.
3. There is no proven correlation between penis ( or vagina ) length and any other part of the body .
4. Bone structure is similar to reinforced concrete, being 1/3 organic ( fibrous tissue and cells) and 2/3 inorganic ( mainly calcium phosphate ), so it is as strong, but less dense, in healthy people .
5. On average, women are smaller than men, as are their hearts, so their rates of heartbeat are faster .
6. Skin bacteria live on sweat, and it's estimated there are 250,000 sweat glands on each foot, but a trillion "bugs" is only a guess .
7. Blinking depends on emotions and environment, but women's eyes may be drier, on average, than men's .
8. Skin is the biggest organ in the body, and the usual estimate of around 4.5 kg is more than twice the known brain weight of around 1.4 kg
9. Surprisingly, anatomists are still discovering new muscles, but out of a grand total of about 700 ( the heart being one), a good massage therapist should know of about 200 muscles, and 300 for standing is a fair estimate .
10. Taste buds detect flavour when food is dissolved in saliva ; a sense of smell is also very important ( sense of taste diminishes with a cold) ; saliva on its own is tasteless .
11 and 12. Correct .

[Steve.r]

Very funny ! The internet is full of these "facts" ( rules of thumb ).
1. 7 seconds for food from mouth to stomach is the average time
2. A human hair can support about 100g ; the hair would be pulled out and could not support anything like 3 kg.
3. There is no proven correlation between penis ( or vagina ) length and any other part of the body .
4. Bone structure is similar to reinforced concrete, being 1/3 organic ( fibrous tissue and cells) and 2/3 inorganic ( mainly calcium phosphate ), so it is as strong, but less dense, in healthy people .
5. On average, women are smaller than men, as are their hearts, so their rates of heartbeat are faster .
6. Skin bacteria live on sweat, and it's estimated there are 250,000 sweat glands on each foot, but a trillion "bugs" is only a guess .
7. Blinking depends on emotions and environment, but women's eyes may be drier, on average, than men's .
8. Skin is the biggest organ in the body, and the usual estimate of around 4.5 kg is more than twice the known brain weight of around 1.4 kg
9. Surprisingly, anatomists are still discovering new muscles, but out of a grand total of about 700 ( the heart being one), a good massage therapist should know of about 200 muscles, and 300 for standing is a fair estimate .
10. Taste buds detect flavour when food is dissolved in saliva ; a sense of smell is also very important ( sense of taste diminishes with a cold) ; saliva on its own is tasteless .
11 and 12. Correct .

thats even better than the OP . Nice one Al

[tone]

I liked the first 12 from an entertainment point of view and the Doc's from a factual point of view!
Cheers

Tone

[branno]

well all i can say is tonite i discovered the longest hair on my ass, when i pulled it it sure made my eyes water..

[tone]

well all i can say is tonite i discovered the longest hair on my ass, when i pulled it it sure made my eyes water..

No no no - your supposed so stick a kg of sugar on the end and see what gives first

My eyes watered at the damn thought - thanks for sharing that one! LOL

Tone

[sexiimulditah]

alright

[Arthur Little]

... it's the formula(e) used to calculate BMA - 'Body Mass Index' - that flummoxes me!

[Doc Alan]

... it's the formula(e) used to calculate BMA - 'Body Mass Index' - that flummoxes me!

BMI is only one "body stat" which is correlated with body fat, but it neither measures fat directly nor does it take account of its distribution ( waist circumference being a better indicator of risks from obesity ).
BMI , for what it's worth, is calculated as : (weight in kilograms) / (height in metres) squared.
You will need a calculator, but in "old units" it's either :
(weight in pounds) X 703 / (height in inches) squared .... or :
(weight in pounds) X 4.88 / (height in feet) squared.
BMI is of most use in adults, but not body builders, athletes, pregnancy, or elderly. It's also hard to interpret in children and adolescents. Where it applies, here are the "figures" :-
Underweight = less than 18.5
Target weight = 18.5 - 25
Overweight = 25 - 30
Obese = 30 - 40
Morbidly obese = over 40.