Body Fat Facts
1. Body fat is not particularly hazardous to health until the level
of total body fat reaches 35% for men and 40% for women.
2. Eating Breakfast helps to burn 5 to 20% of calories throughout the
day.
3. An average human body contains enough amount of fat to make seven
bars of soap.
4. Central obesity or apple shape of the body and insulin resistance
is the main reason for diabetes increase in Indians
5. Women burn fat more slowly than men, by a rate of about 50
calories a day.
6. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
7. During your lifetime, you’ll eat about 60,000 pounds of food,
that’s the weight of about 6 elephants!
9. Exercise and diet can either reduce or delay the incidence of
diabetes by over 50%.
10. Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
11. In the average lifetime, we spend five years eating and we consume
around 7,000 times our own weight in food.
12. It takes 5 - 30 seconds to chew food. Swallowing the food takes
about 10 seconds.
13. Most westerners consume 50 tons of food and 50,000 liters of
liquid in their lifetime.
14. The human body takes 6 hours to digest a high fat meal and it
takes 2 hours for a carbohydrate meal.
15. You burn more calories while sleeping than you do when watching
television.
16. You can go without eating for weeks without succumbing, but eleven
days is tops for going without sleep.
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