This week, Sandy Dempsy a Dietetic Intern put together a list of fun facts about food, health and exercise. I hope this will help maintain your motivation and drive to reach your goals and maintain good health. Enjoy!
- Did you know that you get a new stomach lining every three to four days? If you didn't, the strong acids your stomach uses to digest food would also digest your stomach.
- The small intestine is about four times as long as the average adult is tall. If it weren't looped back and forth upon itself, its length of 18 to 23 feet wouldn't fit into the abdominal cavity, making things rather messy. It is your job to care for our gut by choosing fruits, vegetables, water and consuming at least 25 grams of fiber each day.
- Studies have shown that adults who exercise regularly have better memory, are better at going from one mental task to another, and can focus and concentrate better than those who are sedentary. In other words, exercise makes people smarter.
- Kids who exercise have fewer problems with attention deficit disorder and learn faster. Studies have shown that physical education in schools improves academic performance as well as physical fitness.
- When you take a step, you are using up to 200 muscles. Walking uses a great deal of muscle power-especially if you take your 10,000 steps, about 5 miles, each day.
- Overeating, poor memory, learning disorders, depression all have been linked to the over-consumption of sugar. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the average American consumes 156 pounds of added sugar per year; only 36 percent of it is taken directly. The rest is "hidden" in commercially sweetened and prepared foods like ketchup, baby food, canned fruits, and cereals. Children, it is estimated, consume 3 to 4 pounds of refined Sugar a week.
- On average, every minute you walk extends your life by one and a half to two minutes.
- If you are 25 pounds overweight, you have nearly 5,000 extra miles of blood vessels through which your heart must pump blood.
- Every day an adult body produces 300 billion new cells. Your body not only needs energy and nutrition to keep your organs up and running, but also to constantly repair and build. Over time insufficient nutrition intake can contribute to a decline in health and wellbeing.
- Fast food restaurants use yellow, red, and orange because those are the colors that stimulate hunger.
- If you are not a regular exerciser, by the time you are 65 yo umay experience as much as an 80% decrease in your muscle strenght
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