16/01/2025
Increase Your Knowledge! DID YOU KNOW❓
1)Birds don’t urinate.
2) Horses and cows sleep standing up.
3) Mammals are the only vertebrates other than birds that can fly; the bat is the only mammal that can. A bat's leg bones are so thin that no bat that walk.
4) A snake can “see” even when its eyes are closed; it can see through its eyelids.
5) Polar Bear Specific – The fur looks white & fluffy but actually their skin is black.
6) Some houseflies only live for 2 or 3 weeks.
7) There are a million ants for every human in good old Mother Earth.
8) A few drops of alcohol poured on a scorpion will drive it crazy and it will sting itself to death!!
9) And both alligators and sharks can live for a century.
10) A honeybee has two stomachs: one for honey, and one for food.
11) Elephants weigh less than a blue whale’s tongue. The heart of a blue whale is car-size.
12) Blue whales are the biggest animal in Earth’s history.
13) A cockroach is capable of living for up to a week without its head before succumbing to starvation.
14) When a dolphin is sick or injured, the cries of distress it emits hasten the assistance of other dolphins, who attempt to keep it afloat so it can catch a breath.
15) A snail can sleep for 3 years.
16) The fastest bird, the spine-tailed swift, can fly at speeds of 106mph. The peregrine falcon is in fact 174km /hr or 108mph)
17) A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
18) The leech has 32 brains.
19) An outdoor-only cat, on average, lives only about three years. Indoor-only cats can live to sixteen years or more.
20) Sharks are the only animals to never get sick. They cannot be infected with any disease, not even cancer.
21) A mosquito has 47 sharp edges on the tip of its proboscis that help it cut through skin – and even layers of clothing.
23) 2.5 Million Petabytes 2,500,500 Gigabytes of memory space in the human brain.
*..Knowledge is key..*
What is the biological phenomenon that humans generally get during aging, gradual loss of muscle mass, strength, and function?
This is known as Sarcopenia!
Sarcopenia is basically a progressive loss of muscle mass, strength, and function as a person advances in years... the loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength as a function of aging... Life may be not so great, depending on the individual.
Here we will delve into & dissect several methods through which to PREVENT sarcopenia:
(walk around as much as possible, if you can stand -- just do NOT sit, OK? -- and if you can sit, do NOT lie down!!!!)
No matter what, when an old man or woman falls ill, and is hospitalized, don’t call him/her for more rest, lie down, be relaxed, and/or get out of bed... it’s not help. Assist them to walk… assuming they did not lose endurance to do that.
Just one week of lying down about 5% of your muscle mass disappears! And sadly the elderly are unable to reheal the lost muscles!
As a result, most of them, especially seniors/elderly who hire assistants lose muscle much more quickly than active ones!
Even scarier than osteoporosis is sarcopenia! With osteoporosis, you just have to be careful of falling, sarcopenia not only begets lower quality of life but also causes high blood sugar via reduced muscle mass!
In the limbs, the loss (atrophy) of the fastest muscles — in this case, the legs — occurs due to idleness. When it is in a sitting/lying position, the legs are inactive, and the power of the muscles of the legs is always affected. You are especially to pay utmost attention to this! Stairs, weight, walking /running/cycling are all great exercises / And can help develop muscle mass! Move & don't waste your muscles, for a quality life in old age. The feet are where aging begins. Maintain your legs, strong and active!
We age day by day, and our feet need to remain active and strong always.
2 weeks without moving your legs → your actual leg strength will be reduced by 10 years.
Hence regular exercises and activities such as walking, cycling etc are very essential.
The feet are a sort of columns that bear the whole weight of the human body.... So,
Walk every day!
