20 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Your Body and Health-Part 1
6.Smokers are four times as likely to report feeling unrested after a night's sleep than nonsmokers. Smokers often experience withdrawal symptoms at night, causing periods of restlessness and waking. Smokers were also 1.69 times as likely to develop hearing loss than non-smokers, as smoking may affect antioxidative mechanisms or the blood vessels that feed the auditory system.
7.Eating fruits and vegetables may help the human body make its own aspirin. Findings from the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry indicate that study participants who received benzoic acid, a natural substance in fruits and vegetables, could make their own salicylic acid. This is the key component that gives aspirin its anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties.
8.Your kitchen sink is dirtier than your bathroom. Bacteria colonies with a total population exceeding 50 million can live on a single dirty sponge. And just think - that's what you use to wipe down countertops, forks and drinking glasses.
9.You're more likely to have a heart attack on a Monday, or up to three days after you've been diagnosed with the flu or a respiratory tract infection. The risk of dying from a heart attack increases by a third during outbreaks of the flu and related respiratory diseases. This was found by researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
10.Vitamins don't seem to help older women guard against cancer or heart disease.
auditory n. 聽覺
eg: The accident damaged the patient's auditory system.
eg: He will have surgery next week to repair his auditory nerve.
diagnose v. 診斷
eg: The patient was diagnosed with severe depression(憂鬱症).
eg: She was diagnosed with skin cancer last year.
diagnosis n. 診斷
eg: The doctor made an initial diagnosis after analyzing the test results.
outbreak n. 爆發/暴動
eg: The outbreak of this highly infectious disease claimed many lives.
eg: The outbreak of war caused chaos in the country.
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