Here are some more interesting facts regarding health…
Food gives you energy. It helps you to grow and be healthy.
The foods you eat are made up of different components – Proteins, fats, vitamins and proteins.
Proteins help your body to grow. They help your body to make muscles, skin and other organs and blood. They also help your body to mend when it is damaged.
Carbohydrates help your stay warm.
There are many different minerals such as calcium and iron and vitamins – A, B, C, D and E.
Keep your gums and teeth clean. Remove all the harmful bits of food that get stuck in your mouth, otherwise it will cause toothache, tooth decay and bad breath.
Your body is filled with muscles. You have more than 600 of them. Some of your muscles are fastened to your bones; and these muscles help you to move.
If doctors want to know how fast your heart is beating, they take your pulse. They can feel how fast the blood is being pushed through the artery in your wrist.
Blood flows away from your heart through your arteries. Blood flows back to your heart through your veins.
Almost every human being has some, or the other phobia. What is phobia? A phobia is an intense fear of a particular animal, situation, activity, or object. The fear is so much that it can affect one’s mental and physical health.
In the health facts here is given a list of the various phobias:
- Arachnophobia : Fear of spiders
- Ophidiophobia : Fear of snakes
- Aviatophobia, or Aerophobia : Fear of flying in a plane, helicopter, etc. (Imagine if birds had this phobia!)
- Agoraphobia, Cenophobia, or Kenophobia : Fear of open spaces
- Claustrophobia, or Clithrophobia : Fear of confined, or closed spaces
- Acrophobia, Altophobia, or Hypsophobia : Fear of heights
- Pogonophobia : Fear of beards (Santa Clause will not visit those with this phobia)
- Chorophobia : Fear of dancing
- Pediophobia : Fear of dolls
- Ichthyphobia : Fear of fish
- Batrachophobia : Fear of frogs
- Chaetophobia : Fear of Hair
- Eisoptrophobia : Fear of mirrors
- Triskaidekaphobia : Fear of number 13
- Linonophobia : Fear of strings
- Odontophobia : Fear of teeth
With global warming becoming a major issue, the fact is the existing 28,270 animal species of mammals are threatened by the harms done to the planet.
6,524 vertebrate-species were listed as threatened, in the year 2006. In the same year – 2006 – 2,101 invertebrate-species were listed to be threatened.
In 2006, 253 fish-species were listed as critically endangered.
In 2006, 442 amphibian-species were listed as critically endangered.
81 species of animals are considered extinct or critically endangered, as well as endangered or vulnerable.
The number of animal listed in the U.S.A., is 935.
There are over 1,000 animal species that are endangered at varied levels, across the world.
The endangered animal species are classified into the following for categories:
The vulnerable species :
They are not a threatened species, but are at risk because of their natural declining numbers.
The threatened species :
This is that category of species that are adequate in numbers, but are facing high-risk in their natural surroundings that can lead to the probability of extinction. Examples of such species are eastern indigo snake and the red kangaroo.
The endangered species :
This category includes species that are in the immediate probability of becoming extinct. These species require protection to exist. Examples of such species are the Siberian tiger, the southern sea otter, the snow leopard, etc.
The extinct species :
This category of animal-species includes those that are not in existence at all. Examples include the passenger pigeon, dodo, Stegosaurus, etc.