Did You Know…

Submitted by Dr. Susan G. Burger

Riverside Chiropractic & Vitality Center

• Aerobic exercise reduces blood pressure regardless of a person’s weight or level of blood pressure.

• Children are more susceptible to motion sickness then adults are.

• A nerve cell can transmit 1,000 nerve impulses each second.

• If all of your blood vessels were placed end to end, they would stretch around the world 2 times.

• Your nervous system controls all of your body’s systems and functions.

• Meditation helps reduce heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate, oxygen consumption, perspiration, muscle tension and improves immune response.

• Walking, even at a moderate pace, can transform stiffening blood vessels into pliable ones.

• Drinking a glass of grapefruit juice before you eat a spinach salad enables your body to absorb two to four times as much iron.

• Your blood passes through the kidneys 300 times a day.

• Bright morning sunlight can decrease a pregnant women’s depressive symptoms by about 50%.

• The skin of a typical adult covers 20 sq. ft. and weights 6 lbs.

• You are made of 60 trillion cells.

• You have 600 muscles and 206 bones.

• Your heart beats 70 times a minute, 100,000 times a day, 38,000,000 times a year and 3 billion times a lifetime.

• It takes 40 muscles to frown and only 17 to smile!

Take care of your amazing body!