On average, someone in the United States has a stroke about every 40 seconds. This is about 795,000 people per year.
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Only one in 10 cancer deaths is caused by the primary tumor. The vast majority of cancer mortality is caused by cells breaking away from the main tumor and metastasizing to other parts of the body, such as the brain, bones, or liver.
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If you could remove all of your skin, it would weigh up to 5 pounds.
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The B-complex vitamins and vitamin C are not stored in the body and must be replaced each day.
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Your chance of developing a kidney stone is 1 in 10. In recent years, approximately 3.7 million people in the United States were diagnosed with a kidney disease.