Topic : Body (human)

Our five senses give us some astonishing capabilities. We can see a candle’s flame 30 miles away on a dark, clear night, and smell a single drop of perfume diffused in a three-room apartment. We can taste . 04 ounce of table salt in 530 quarts of water. Our sense of touch can detect a pressure that depresses the skin . 00004 inch on the face or fingertips. And we can tell where a sound is coming from even when it arrives at one ear just . 0003 second before its arrival at the other ear.

Today in the Word, November, 1996, p. 28

If you are an adult of average weight, here is what you accomplish in 24 hours:

• your heart beats 103689 times
• your blood travels 168,000,000 miles
• you breathe 23040 times
• you inhale 438 cubic feet of air
• you eat 3. 25 pounds of food
• you drink 2. 9 quarts of liquids
• you lose 7/8 pounds of waste
• you speak 4800 words, including some unnecessary ones
• you move 750 muscles
• your nails grow . 000046 inch
• your hair grows . 01714 inch
• you exercise 7,000,000 brain cells

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• The average human body is about 65% water.
• 20 percent of the weight of the average adult male is from his bones.

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The extent of redemption reaches to my body. The result of redemption: my body should be a temple, not a garage. The purpose of redemption: glorify God in my body.

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