The Whole Health Factory

A human eye can distinguish up to 10 million different colors. But our brain can't remember all of them.

Healthy Insight: The heart beats 35 million times a year.

Interesting Fact: Blinking provides your brain with a mental rest

Interesting Fact: Your eyes have the fastest muscles in your body

Health Insight: Pound for pound, your bones are stronger than steel. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support up to 18,000 pounds of weight.

Fun Fact: Editor Bennett Cerf (co-founder of Random House Publishing) challenged Theodore Geisel (a.k.a Dr. Seuss) to write a book using no more than 50 different words. Sparking the creation of one of the most beloved children's books of all time "Green Eggs and Ham".

Fun Fact: Before settling on the Seven Dwarfs we know today, Disney also considered Chesty, Tubby, Burpy, Deafy, Hickey, Wheezy, and Awful.

Health Insight: The human body contains enough carbon to provide 'lead' (actually graphite) for about 9,000 pencils

Healthy Insight: According to the Mayo Clinic, fat leaves the body mostly via exhaled breath.

Healthy Insight: It is said that exercise can be better for mild depression than medication. Doing something healthy and positive may lift self-esteem.

Meditating is better for your mental health than a vacation (just don't tell your boss).

Healthy Insights: Optimism may help you live longer
Can seeing the glass half full help you live longer? Studies have found that there is a correlation between increasing levels of optimism with decreasing levels of death from cancer, disease, infection and stroke. This is particularly true for cases of cardiovascular disease. Those who had the highest levels of optimism had an almost 40% lower risk of heart disease

Health Fact: More than half your bones are located in your hands and feet

The TV Remote is the dirtiest item in a typical Household, Hospital, or Hotel Room...just sayin'

Interesting Fact: Depending On The Speed Of The Wind, Some Clouds Travel Up To 100 Miles Per Hour Across The Sky.

Interesting Fact: You Lose About 50 To 100 Hairs A Day

Interesting Fact: The coldest temperature ever recorded was -144 degrees Fahrenheit.

Hopeful News: The Earth's ozone layer could make a full recovery in 50 years.

Fun Fact: Copenhagen is the most bike-friendly city in the world.

Fun Fact: Four babies are born every second.

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow.'”– Mary Anne Radmacher

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank