Reader – You are Truly Amazing!

If you ever feel negative about yourself and doubt your worth then I would ask you to take a few minutes to meditate on the following scientific facts and then see if you still feel bad about yourself.-

50,000 of the cells in your body will die and be replaced with new cells, whilst you have read this sentence!

In one hour, your heart works hard enough to produce the equivalent energy to raise almost 1 ton of weight 1 yard (1 metre) off the ground.

Scientists have counted over 500 different liver functions.

In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibres, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.

There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being. In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.

Most people blink about 25 times a minute.

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.

Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.

You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.

Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.

The average human blinks his eyes 6,205,000 times each year.

The average human produces a quart of saliva a day or 10,000 gallons in a lifetime.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

The average human’s heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime.

The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.

You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.

The average human body contains enough Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire :a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 match heads, and enough Water to fill a ten-gallon tank.

Only humans and horses have hymens.

One human brain generates more electrical impulses in a single day than all of the world’s telephones put together.

We have a whole pharmacy within us. Our bodies can create any drug we need inside them.

Our bodies are recreating themselves constantly – we make a new skeleton every 3 months, new skin every month. We are capable of reversing the Aging Process!!

Now just these facts alone make you very very special, now I want to ask you just one simple question. Do you really think that you are a series of billions of accidents over millions of years, or is it possible that someone or something had a hand in your design and build?

And God said – “Let us make mankind just like ourselves (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), so that they can govern and take care of every living thing on planet earth, and if they do a good job on Earth then that can be just for starters” (Paraphrase of

by John Holme 2007) .