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Friday, 3 February 2017

Body Fat Facts

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!
8. Every time you lick a stamp, you’re consuming 1/10 of a calorie.
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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