The length from your wrist to your elbow is the same as the length of your foot.
Your heart beats 101,000 times a day. During your lifetime it will beat about 3 billion times and pump about 400 million litres (800 million pints) of blood.
Your mouth produces 1 litre (1.8 pints) of saliva a day.
On average, people can hold their breath for one minute. The world record is seven-and-a-half minutes.
The human head contains 22 bones.
More on the head and brains
On average, you breathe 23,000 times a day.
On average, you speak almost 5,000 words a day - although almost 80% of speaking is self-talk (talking to yourself).
Einstein's brain was of average size (1375 grams - 49oz).
Over the last 150 years the average height of people in industrialised nations increased by 10 cm (4 in).
In the 19th century, American men were the tallest in the world, averaging 1,71m (5'6"). Today, the average height for American men is 1,75m (5'7"), compared to 1,77m (5'8") for Swedes, and 1,78m (5'8.5") for the Dutch.
The tallest nation in the world is the Watusis of Burundi.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty
.
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine, suggested that a woman could enlarge her bust line by singing loudly and often.
A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
You'll drink about 75,000 litres (20,000 gallons) of water in your lifetime.
After a certain period of growth, hair becomes dormant. That means that it is attached to the hair follicle until replaced by new hair.
Hair on the head grows for between two and six years before being replaced. In the case of baldness, the dormant hair was not replaced with new hair.
Men loose about 40 hairs a day. Women loose about 70 hairs a day.
In the Middle Ages the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow was called an ell.
A person remains conscious for eight seconds after being decapitated.
The first human sex change took place in 1950 when Danish doctor Christian Hamburger operated on New Yorker George Jargensen, who became Christine Jargensen.
TThe liver is the largest of the body's internal organs. The skin is the body's largest organ.
Not all our taste buds are on our tongue; about 10% are on the palette and the cheeks.
On average a hiccup lasts 5 minutes.
Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.
It takes about 3 months for the transplanted hair to start growing again.
About 13% of people are left-handed. Up from 11% in the past.
In 1900, a person could expect to live to be 47. Today, the average life expectancy for men and women in developed countries is longer than 70 years.
A newborn baby's head accounts for one-quarter of its weight.
King Henry I, who ruled in the England in the 12th century, standardised the yard as the distance from the thumb of his outstretched arm to his nose.
The bones in your body are not white - they range in colour from beige to light brown. The bones you see in museums are white because they have been boiled and cleaned.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth.
Every person has a unique tongue print.
If all your DNA is stretched out, it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
Approximately two-thirds of a person's body weight is water. Blood is 92% water. The brain is 75% water and muscles are 75% water.
The coloured part of the eye is called the iris. Behind the iris is the soft, rubbery lens which focuses the light on to a layer, called the retina, in the back of the eye.
The retina contains about 125 million rods and 7 million cones.
The rods pick up shades of grey and help us see in dim light. The cones work best in bright light to pick up colours.
We actually do not see with our eyes - we see with our brains. The eyes basically are the cameras of the brain. One-quarter of the brain is used to control the eyes.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Yoga Tips for Office
Movements of joints: This is called 'sandhichalana' In this technique, the joints of the body are removed in a sequence, and each joint undergoes a full movement. The steps in movement of joints include the following.
Movement of the hands: 1. Sit with the legs stretched together in front of the body.
2. Keep the arms parallel to the legs with palms facing down. Maintain a distance of nine to twelve inches between the hands.
3. Keep the neck and back erect.
4. Stretch the fingers out, opening the hands, and then close the fingers against the palms, forming tight fists. Repeat these finger movements ten to twelve times with the palms facing down. Next is movement of the wrist joint.
5. Hold the palms and fingers loosely and move the hands up and down at the wrist joint seven to ten times
6. Turn the palms inside, facing each other, and repeat the movements of the wrist joint seven to ten times
7. Turn the palms upward, facing the roof above, and move the wrist joints seven to ten times.
8. Turn the palms outward , and repeat the wrist movements seven to ten times.
9. Rotate the wrist joints so that the hands move in a circular fashion. Rotate them ten times each in both, clockwise and anti-clockwise directions.
10. Next, exercise the elbow joints by moving them ten times each in vertical and horizontal planes.
11. Lastly, move the shoulder joints as if you are rowing a boat.
It is important to remember that you should not move the legs or back during all the steps described above.
Movement of the neck: neck exercise are done by moving the neck in four different ways.
1. Keep the legs as for the movements of the hands. Keep the hands behind the hips, reclining the back slightly
2. First, do forward and backward movements ten times by moving the chin up and down.
3. Next, do sideward movements ten times by bringing the left ear near the left shoulder and then the right ear near the right shoulder. While doing the sideward movements, the chin should move in a semi circle.
4. The third movement involve turning to the left ant right shoulders. Repeat this movement also ten times.
5. The fourth movement is circular where the chin is rotated from right shoulder to left shoulder in clockwise and anti-clockwise directions.
Movement of the lower limbs:
Detailed below are the steps for movement of the lower limbs. The feet are first moved in four different ways.1. Keep the feet apart in straight and bend the toes forward and backward
2. Next, rotate the feet inward and outward followed by moving them forward and backward.
Lastly , move the feet in a circular fashion. The knee joints are moved in different ways.
1. Raising the feet from the ground.
2. Bring the heels near the body by bending the legs from the knees in a vertical and horizontal position.
3. Lie down on the back with right leg straight on the ground.
4. Bring the left knee near the chin, keeping the right one on the ground
5. In the third movement, bend both the knees together and touch them with the chin.
6. Do a rolling action by raising the hips and the neck alternately All the joint movements should be tried only after learning the correct technique for yoga expert.
You will need about three to four minutes to complete the above exercises. They will help keep all the joints of the body supple and flexible. At the end of the movement of the joints, you need to practice postures of asanas. The joint movements are not mentioned in any ancient traditional texts of yoga. However, They have been included in this issue because they are very beneficial to every one and are good starters for an exercise routine
Movement of the hands: 1. Sit with the legs stretched together in front of the body.
2. Keep the arms parallel to the legs with palms facing down. Maintain a distance of nine to twelve inches between the hands.
3. Keep the neck and back erect.
4. Stretch the fingers out, opening the hands, and then close the fingers against the palms, forming tight fists. Repeat these finger movements ten to twelve times with the palms facing down. Next is movement of the wrist joint.
5. Hold the palms and fingers loosely and move the hands up and down at the wrist joint seven to ten times
6. Turn the palms inside, facing each other, and repeat the movements of the wrist joint seven to ten times
7. Turn the palms upward, facing the roof above, and move the wrist joints seven to ten times.
8. Turn the palms outward , and repeat the wrist movements seven to ten times.
9. Rotate the wrist joints so that the hands move in a circular fashion. Rotate them ten times each in both, clockwise and anti-clockwise directions.
10. Next, exercise the elbow joints by moving them ten times each in vertical and horizontal planes.
11. Lastly, move the shoulder joints as if you are rowing a boat.
It is important to remember that you should not move the legs or back during all the steps described above.
Movement of the neck: neck exercise are done by moving the neck in four different ways.
1. Keep the legs as for the movements of the hands. Keep the hands behind the hips, reclining the back slightly
2. First, do forward and backward movements ten times by moving the chin up and down.
3. Next, do sideward movements ten times by bringing the left ear near the left shoulder and then the right ear near the right shoulder. While doing the sideward movements, the chin should move in a semi circle.
4. The third movement involve turning to the left ant right shoulders. Repeat this movement also ten times.
5. The fourth movement is circular where the chin is rotated from right shoulder to left shoulder in clockwise and anti-clockwise directions.
Movement of the lower limbs:
Detailed below are the steps for movement of the lower limbs. The feet are first moved in four different ways.1. Keep the feet apart in straight and bend the toes forward and backward
2. Next, rotate the feet inward and outward followed by moving them forward and backward.
Lastly , move the feet in a circular fashion. The knee joints are moved in different ways.
1. Raising the feet from the ground.
2. Bring the heels near the body by bending the legs from the knees in a vertical and horizontal position.
3. Lie down on the back with right leg straight on the ground.
4. Bring the left knee near the chin, keeping the right one on the ground
5. In the third movement, bend both the knees together and touch them with the chin.
6. Do a rolling action by raising the hips and the neck alternately All the joint movements should be tried only after learning the correct technique for yoga expert.
You will need about three to four minutes to complete the above exercises. They will help keep all the joints of the body supple and flexible. At the end of the movement of the joints, you need to practice postures of asanas. The joint movements are not mentioned in any ancient traditional texts of yoga. However, They have been included in this issue because they are very beneficial to every one and are good starters for an exercise routine
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Questions we want to share, but probably doesn't know, where to ask.
or there may be nuggets of info or joy you would like to share.
so my blog is here just for you.
So blog bindaaas.
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