Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

The Psalmist in Psalm 139:14 declared; "I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, wonderful are your works." I wonder if he realized what we know today about the human body? Consider the following!

Your body is the most amazing machine ever built! The human body is highly adaptive, more so than any robot or computer will ever be. No man-made systems can be compared to human body in its inherent complexity and perfection!

Here are some amazing facts about the human body that you may find interesting:

* You lose around 50 to 100 hairs from your head everyday, but they are replaced that same day.

* An average human has 100, 000 hairs on their head.

* Around 45 miles of nerves run through our body. These electric impulses travel at a speed of almost 250 mph!

* By the age of 70, your heart will have beat 2.5 billion times and pumped around 48,000,000 gallons of blood.

* A square of human skin contains 20 feet of blood vessels, 1,300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands and 3 million cells.

* 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.

* Each second 10,000,000 cells die and are replaced in your body.

* You create new skin every month and a new skeleton every 3 months!

* The liver is the body's chemical factory. It has over 500 functions!

* You spend one third of your lifetime sleeping -- 20 Years in an average lifetime!

 The DNA helix measures 80 billionths of an inch wide.

It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.

The surface area of a human lung is equal to that of a tennis court.