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Every pound of fat gained requires your body to create seven new miles of blood vessels.
When your body creates new fat tissue, it must also create a network of blood vessels to supply that tissue with oxygen and nutrients. This process, called angiogenesis, demonstrates why rapid weight gain can strain the cardiovascular system. These blood vessels will regress when fat tissue is lost.
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The human heart beats about 100,000 times per day.
This amounts to about 35 million beats per year and 2.5 billion beats in an average lifetime. The...
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Your stomach acid could dissolve a razor blade.
Stomach acid, with a pH between 1 and 3, is strong enough to dissolve metal. A study found...
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Your body produces enough saliva in your lifetime to fill two swimming pools.
The average person produces about 1-1.5 liters of saliva daily, totaling about 25,000 gallons over a lifetime. Saliva...