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--DID YOU KNOW? / Information from VRP (Vitamin Research Prod) --  **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. ~~
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]
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--DID YOU KNOW??--[VRP Report]**Yawning can raise your heart rate by 30 percent.
**People with gum disease are twice as likely to suffer from a heart attack or stroke.
**One-fourth of all the bones in your body are located in your feet.
**Ulcers are caused by the bacteria H. pylori--not stress. Stress simply increases your susceptibility.
**Seventy-five to 90 percent of all visits to a primary physician are due to stress. 
**You can ease both inflammation and a headache by eating 20 tart cherries.
**Both Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great were epileptic.
**At least seven percent of all health care costs in the U.S. are directly related to smoking.
**Cosmetic procedures in the U.S. increased by 228 percent between 1997 and 2002.
**A fever highter than 107.6*F can result in brain damage.
**Nearly 300,000 deaths in the U.S. each year can be attributed to obesity. 
**As Jerry Maguire will tell you, the human head weighs eight pounds. 
**Your stomach produces two liters of hydrochloric acid every day.
**It takes an average of three hours for your food to be broken down in your stomach.
**The average American spends one-third of thier life sleeping.
**Research has shown that feeling guilty can impair your immune system. 
**Listening to Mozart's Piano Sonata can dramatically decrease the chance of a seizure in people with epilepsy. ~~~
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [John 14:6]
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