Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Health and food


  1. It takes around 10 litres of milk to make 1kg of cheese?
  2. About 1 billion people lack access to clean drinking?
  3. About 400 quarter pounders can be produced by one cow?
  4. There are 26 species of peppers?
  5. If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib?
  6. Dr Pepper is the oldest major soft drink in America?
  7. Sugar can lower your immune system?
  8. The wreck of the TITANIC holds the oldest wine cellar in the world?
  9. Acne is caused by bacteria?
  10. 7-Up was invented in St. Louis?
  11. You will not find burritoes in Mexico?
  12. The most popular Easter candy in the US is chocolate eggs?
  13. All hot chiles originates from the Western hemisphere?
  14. Raw honey does not spoil?
  15. The body of a 70 kg person contains about 2 mg of silver?
  16. It takes about 8 - 10 seconds for food to travel down the esophagus?
  17. The body of a 70 kg person contains about 7 mg of arsenic?
  18. Peter Dowdeswell drunk 2 pints of milk in just 3.2 seconds?
  19. Peter Dowdeswell ate 12 lb/5.44 kg of Ice cream in 45.5 seconds?
  20. The body of a 70 kg person contains about 43 kg of oxygen?
  21. The body of a 70 kg person contains about 0.2 mg of gold?
  22. Tomato is the world's most popular fruit?
  23. Tooth decay is still one of the most common human disease in the world?
  24. The most popular ice cream flavors are Vanilla, Chocolate and Strawberry?
  25. Antarctica is the only continent where pumpkins cant grow?
  26. A Pumpkin is made of about 90 % of water?
  27. Vermont is the only US state capital without a McDonalds restaurant?
  28. Zoom teeth whitening can get Your teeth up to 10 Shades Whiter?
  29. Grapes and egg will explode in the microwave?
  30. The first ice cream parlour opened in New York City in 1776?
  31. Coca-Cola was first bottled in Mississippi?
  32. Coca-Cola was originally marketed for medical use?
  33. Apples will melt in very hot weather?
  34. Fanta was originally made from byproducts of cheese and jam?
  35. A good cow produces about 200000 glasses of milk in her lifetime?
  36. In the 1830s 7 - Up was sold as medicine?
  37. Soy sauce is probably one of the oldest condiment in the world?
  38. During Thanksgiving and Super Bowl the food consumption is larger than any other day in the US?
  39. Some people in Malaysia wash their babies in beer to protect them from diseases?
  40. The Mayans and Aztecs used to drink cocoa drinks?
  41. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite?
  42. Peanuts aren't really nuts but are actually a type of bean?
  43. It takes about 5000 liters of water to produce 1 kilo of rice?
  44. To make one liter of honey you will need the nectar from about 10 million flowers?
  45. To make one pound of chocolate about 400 cocoa beans are required?
  46. A bee produce only 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey during her entire lifetime?
  47. There are over 225 different kinds of bread in Germany?
  48. Hot Dog comes from Germany?
  49. Caesar Salad is not named after Julius Caesar but after chef Caesar Cardini?
  50. If you eat too many carrots your skin could turn orange?
  51. No other species than humans drink milk from the mothers of other species?
  52. If you kiss someone for one minute you will burn about 6 - 7 calories?
  53. A kiss could result in an exchanged of over 270 colonies of bacteria?
  54. The milk of reindeer has more fat than cow milk?
  55. People in Sweden eat about 1 kg/person of ham each Christmas?
  56. Sweden is one of the top consumers per capita of ketchup in the world?
  57. The upperclass Romans used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste?
  58. If you lick 10 stamps you will consume one calorie?
  59. Popcorn was invented by the American Indians?
  60. Turks drink more tea than any other people in the world?
  61. An overweight person is about 5 times more likely to get a heart disease?
  62. The glue on Israeli postage stamps is kosher?
  63. Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie?
  64. It takes about 6 hours for your stomach to digest a high fat meal?
  65. 25% of the weight of your old pillow is from dust & dust mites?
  66. In 1886, Coca-cola was first served at a pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. It was a pharmacist named John Pemberton who creator of Coca-cola?
  67. Banging your head against a wall uses about 150 calories an hour?
  68. Americans consume about 42 tons of Aspirin each day?
  69. It takes about four and five pounds of grapes to make one pound of raisins?
  70. The first toilet stall in a public washroom is the least likely to be used. It is also the cleanest?
  71. Rice is the staple food for 50% of the world’s population?
  72. Potatoes, pineapples, and pumpkins originate from Peru?
  73. More people are allergic to cow's milk than any other food?
  74. Iceland is the world largest Coca-Cola consumers per capita?
  75. China produces more apples than the rest of the world put together?
  76. The city of Denver in Colorado lays claim to the invention of the cheeseburger?
  77. Pearls melt in vinegar?
  78. A hard-boiled egg will spin. An uncooked or soft-boiled egg will not?
  79. Chewing gum while peeling onions will prevent you from crying?
  80. There is no butter in buttermilk?
  81. There are over 40 000 varieties of rice grown worldwide?
  82. 80% of the Vanilla Beans which are used in ice cream is grown in Madagascar?
  83. Coca-Cola was originally green?
  84. Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year?
  85. The astronauts Neil Armstrong ate roasted turkey as his first meal on the moon?
  86. All foods have some water in them?
  87. The largest McDonald's is in Beijing, China. It has twenty nine cash registers and measuring 28,000 square feet?
  88. You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV?
  89. There are over 7 000 varieties of apples?
  90. Great Britain has the highest consumption of ice cream in Europe?
  91. You use more calories eating celery than there are in the celery itself?
  92. During your lifetime you will eat about the weight of 6 fullgrown elephants?
  93. Rice contains no fiber at all?
  94. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do?
  95. The number 57 on Heinz ketchup bottle represents the ingredients in the sauce?
  96. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave?
  97. Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health?
  98. In the U.S. ice cream is sold most on a Sunday?
  99. Americans eat 18% more vegetables today than they did in 1970?
  100. One in three adults aged 15-49 are infected with HIV/AIDS in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Swaziland?
  101. In the 1800's people believed that gin could cure stomach problems?
  102. Rice needs more water to grow than any other crop?
  103. Patients stay in hospital for an average of almost 10 days in Switzerland, which has the most hospital beds per 1000 people?
  104. On average, women in New Zealand do not give birth until they are 30 years old?
  105. 22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so?

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