Today is just a regular day. Nothing has changed or happened and there is nothing of particular importance on the docket. Wait, maybe there is after all. Today is the day we should celebrate. You may wonder what exactly we are celebrating. The answer to that question is you and that amazing body of yours. Really? Yes, really!
A LITTLE EXTRA
I do it too. The self-criticism you impose when you notice the little extra cush around your mid-section. They gray hair that peppers your locks and the wrinkles around your eyes are multiplying. We feel the frustration when we can’t physically do what we used to do. Who doesn’t occasionally gripe about their body?
SEE WHAT HAPPENS
“You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
-Louise Hay
CELEBRATE
It is high time we stop criticizing ourselves and celebrate that amazing body. This amazing machine that houses our soul has the ability to perform myriad functions without any conscious help from us.
FUN FACTS
The factsite.com had some interesting facts about our bodies.
- Though weighing only about 11 ounces, our heart beats about 100,000 times per day and pumps about 1,900 gallons of blood.
- Every 3-4 seconds, around 50,000 cells in your body will die and be replaced by new ones.
- It requires less effort to be happy. You’ll use 17 muscles to smile vs. 43 to frown. Cheer up!
- A sneeze can potentially travel at 100 miles per hour and create upwards of 100,000 droplets while a cough can travel 50 miles per hour and expel almost 3,000 droplets.
- If you weigh 150 pounds, 21 pounds of this is the weight of your skeleton.
- Exercising on an empty stomach will burn around 20% more calories.
- On average, the body takes around 12 hours to totally digest food you have already eaten.
- Eyeballs never grow while hands, ears, and the nose never stop.
- In times of fear, you are physically stronger than normal due to the release of cortisol and adrenaline.
- Babies don’t have kneecaps, rather cartilage that gradually turn into bone as ossification begins between ages 2-6.
- Your tongue is the only muscle that doesn’t join two bones.
- The cracking sound made by knuckles, necks, backs and other joints when they’re cracked is the sound of bubbles popping in the joint’s fluid.
YOUR AMAZING BODY
I hope you enjoyed just a few reminders about what your amazing body is capable of doing! Stop criticizing it and start celebrating it. Do it a favor by keeping it adequately hydrated, properly nourished, exercised and give it the rest it deserves. This is the only physical body you will ever have the privilege of using. Treat it the way you would treat any other treasure that you revere. Get it checked and treated. If diagnostic ultrasound is indicated, call us at 505-350-3397.