Amazing Health Facts
- Your heart will beat about 3 billion times in your lifetime
- Although a newborn baby has 350 bones, a fully-grown adult has only 206
- Blood is a liquid organ
- Everyone is born color blind
- Your lungs inhale over three million gallons of air a day
- The surface area of the lungs is approximately the same size as a tennis court
- Approximately 20 percent of people are "aspirin-resistant." They do not benefit from taking aspirin to prevent blood clotting. British Medical Journal 2004;328:477-479 (28 February)