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The

Understanding
Your Body
Issue

INCREDIBLE YOU
Think you know your body like the back of your hand?
Consider these amazing facts about the human form.
As much as 60 percent of the adult body is
water; the lungs are about 83 percent water.
The human body contains more than
650 muscles.

PHOTO BY THINKSTOCK

A human head may lose 50 to 100 hairs a
day-and you didn't even notice, did you?
You aren't imagining it: Fingernails grow
faster than toenails; all nails grow faster
in summer than in winter.

The average 20-year-old American native
English speaker knows 42,000 words-and
learns a few new words every week.
Hearts work hard: The body contains about
5.6 liters (or 6 quarts) of blood, which
circulates through the body three times
every minute.

When you better
understand how
your body works,
you can help it
work better.
Read on to find
out how.

The small intestine, at about 20 feet long,
is much longer than the large intestine. The
large intestine, at 5 feet long, gets its name
from its bigger diameter.

Your body can make nearly 30 hormones.
Sources: American Academy of Dermatology, American Physiological Society, Center for Academic Research &
Training in Anthropogeny, DK, Frontiers in Psychology, Library of Congress, PBS, U.S. Geological Survey

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