--DID YOU KNOW? / Information from VRP (Vitamin Research Prod)
-- fyi
**More Americans die of obesity than in any other country in the world. In fact, we have more obesity-related deaths than Canada, Mexico, Germany, Austria and Spain combined.

**Coughing makes your blood pressure increase and your sensitivity to pain decrease.

**Two-thirds of all American adults suffer from hemorrhoids.

**On average, a pound of potato chips costs 200 times more than a pound of regular potatoes.

**People with gum disease are twice as likely to suffer from a stroke or heart attack.

**Your memory is better in the morning than in late afternoon, especially for those over the age of 70.

**Stress headaches are often due to your body rerouting blood flow away from the brain to other areas of the body.

**The United States has the highest marriage rate in the world. The country with the hightest divorce rate? Also the United States.

**Every three minutes, someone in the U.S. dies of a stroke.

**According to a recent study from Hormones and Behavior, men find women more attractive when the woman is ovulating or near ovulation, which also happens to be when they're most fertile.

**Eight percent of American adults suffer from serious mental illness.

**Twenty to 50 percent of all antibiotic use in the U.S. is unnecessary.

**Statistics show that less than 20 percent of patients are fully informed about a prescription's risks and benefits before consenting to take the drug.

**Five percent of women and one percent of men over the age of 40 are plagued by adult acne.

**Your brain uses 20 percent of the oxygen in your bloodstream.

**Stress causes or contributes to 90 percent of all diseases.

**Within a half an hour, your body generates enough heat to boil half a gallon of water.

**The scent of a woman's tears decreases men's sexual response.

**Every bottle of beer you drink per day reduces your risk of kidney stones by 40 percent.

**Spinach is not rich in iron. That myth was started as the result of a printing error 70 years ago, when a table showing the nutritional value of certain foods put the decimal point one place too far to the right, mistakenly increasing spinach's iron content 10-fold. While the mistake was corrected seven decades ago, the myth still persists. ~~

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