Top 60 Intersting and Unknown Facts - About Global Warming and Health & Fitness || That You don't know

Today we will discus about two basic problems, 1. Health & Fitness, 2. Global Warming. Now think if earth's temperature raises to 50°C, then what will happen. Everything will be destroyed in next few days. There is too much causes of polution, like indutrial smoke, vehicle's smoke, deforestation. That's why our earth's temperature is raising.

Human health is affecting from this type of polution, And Nobody is taking actions on such as serious issues. Everyone wants a healthy body but polution is making them weak. If you wand to know more, Read it Carefully.

Fact About Global Warming

1. Worldwide, one hundred million people live within three feet of sea level, and much of the world's population is clustered in coastal areas.

2. Between the years 1961 and 1997, the world's glaciers lost 890 cubic miles of ice.

3. The earth is a natural greenhouse and is kept warm by water vapors, carbon dioxide (CO2), and other gases in the atmosphere, which absorb the sun's energy and radiate it back toward the earth. This type of warming is called "natural greenhouse effect." "Enhanced greenhouse effect," on the other hand, causes global climate change due to excessive levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.

4. In the year 1997 alone, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere increased by 2.87 ppm; this increase is more than any other year on record.

5. While increased concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere certainly can increase temperatures, many geologists believe that water vapor accounts for more than 90% of the greenhouse warming effect.

6. In 1910, Glacier National Park in Montana boasted 150 glaciers-today there are just 27.

7. Climate models predict the loss of Arctic sea ice earlier and more rapidly than the loss of Antarctic land ice if warming trends continue.

8. Fossil fuel burning currently adds nearly six billion tons of CO2 to the atmosphere every year. Only half of this CO2 is removed by forests and oceans.

9. According to NASA studies, average temperatures around the world have increased 1.4degree F since 1880, with most of the change occurring in recent decades.

10. Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius realized as early as 1896 that human industrial activity was already surpassing the earth's ability to reabsorb CO2.

11. Cars amount to three-quarters of all transportation emissions. At the current rate, the world will be driven on by more than a billion cars in 2030 and a billion more by 2050.

12. Geologists believe sea levels could rise between seven and 23 inches by the end of the century if current warming trends continue.

13. About 20% of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere comes from the gasoline burned in motor vehicle engines. The vast majority of emitted CO2 is a result of fossil fuel burning in power plants for electricity generation.

14. Roughly 75% of the annual increase in atmospheric CO2 is due solely to the burning of fossil fuels.

15. During the twentieth century, the earth experienced two warming trends. The first was a burst in temperature from 1900-1930, and the second is a continuing increase in temperature beginning in the 1970s.

16. The effects of global warming could destroy the habitats of and threaten extinction for over one million species of plants and animals.

17. According to the Internal Energy Agency, the world will invest some $20 trillion in new energy research over the next 25 years in an attempt to slow the effects of global warming.

18. The year 2005 was the warmest on record, and the years 1998 and 2007 are tied for the second warmest. The eight warmest years on record have all occurred since 1998.

19. The United States represents less than 5% of the world's population, yet Americans account for 25% of the world's commercial energy consumption and 22% of the world's industrial emissions of CO2.

20. As Arctic ice rapidly disappears, scientists believe the Arctic will experience its first ice-free summer as early as the year 2040.

21. Average temperatures in the Arctic climates of Alaska, Canada, and Russia have risen at twice the global average in the last century.

22. Rampant deforestation currently causes 20% of the world's global warming pollution by prohibiting the reabsorption of CO2.

23. Since the 1950s, Arctic sea ice has declined by 15% and the average annual duration of northern lake and river ice has decreased by two weeks.

24. Deserts worldwide are increasing as a result of warmer temperatures. At the end of the year 2007, Australia lost 25% of crop production due to desertification.

25. The last two decades of the twentieth century were the hottest decades in more than 400 years and may have been the hottest decades for several thousand years.

26. The polar bear, while surviving in drastically reduced numbers, is already effectively extinct in its natural habitat-and no amount of change can save it. Scientists estimate that just 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears still survive in the wild.

27. The earth's atmosphere now contains 40% more CO2 than before the Industrial Revolution.

28. Without the atmosphere to create a greenhouse-type effect, the average temperature on Earth would be just 5degree Fahrenheit (F).

29. Natural levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have varied throughout history between 180 and 300 parts per million (ppm). Today's CO2 levels hover around 380 ppm, representing a 25% increase over the highest recorded natural levels.

30. Global warming research is primarily conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a partnership formed in 1998 with the World Meteorological Organization and environmental agencies of the United Nations.

Facts about Helth & Fitness

31. Studies report that the way a man walks can indicate his sexual orientation. For example, as a gay man walks, he will often slightly sway his hips.

32. Researchers have found that women who walked at least 1.5 hours per week had significantly better cognitive function than women who walked less than 40 minutes a week.

33. Walking is also known as ambulation. The term "walk" is from the Old English wealcan, or "to roll.'

34. Less than 50% of American adults exercise enough to gain significant health or benefits. Inactivity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the U.S., second only to tobacco use.

35. The United States Product Safety Commission listed 4,450 reported yoga injuries in 2006, up from 3,760 in 2004.

36. A male practitioner of yoga is called a yogi, and a female practitioner is called a yogini-a term which has also been applied to the female sex partner in certain schools of Tantra as well as the 64 female deities who manifested universal creative energy.

37. A 20-minute walk, or about 2,000 steps, equal a mile.

38. Patanjali (150 B.C.) was an Indian sage who recorded a series aphorism on how to practice yoga in the text Yoga Sutras. While Patanjali is typically considered the father of yoga, yoga was around long before Patanjali, who only made it more accessible.

39. Under Obamacare, preventive services are free, which reduces health care costs by treating diseases before they reach an expensive crisis.

40. A growing body of research shows that yoga can improve sex and may even prevent and treat sex problems by increasing the overall health of the cardiovascular system.

41. Walking reduces the risk of both breast and colon cancer.

42. On average, a person would need to walk seven hours to burn off a Super-Sized Coke, fries, and a Big Mac.

43. A York University study found that practicing yoga reduced physical and psychological symptoms of chronic pain in women with fibromyalgia.

44. The best way to lose weight by walking is to take a longer, moderately paced walk (40 minutes at 60-65% maximum heart rate). Shorter, faster walks (20-25 minutes at 75%-85% maximum heart rate) are best for conditioning the heart and lungs.

45. When Tara Guber proposed that a public elementary school in Aspen, Colorado, teach yoga in 2002, Christian fundamentalists and some secular parents argued that yoga's Hindu roots conflicted with Christian teachings or that teaching it in schools violated the separation of church and state.

46. Amish men take about 18,425 steps per day. Amish women take about 14,196. The average American adult takes about 4,000 steps per day. Only 4% of Amish are obese, compared to 31% of the general population.

47. When the body walks faster than speeds of 3.1 mph, a person's stride length naturally increases, which burns more calories. In fact, research shows that at maximal levels of exertion, oxygen consumption is only slightly lower for race walkers than it is for runners.

48. There are over 100 different schools of yoga, including Hatha yoga, Raja yoga ("royal yoga"), Jnana yoga ("path of knowledge"), Bhakti yoga, Karma yoga, ("discipline of action"), and Bikram yoga. While each school of yoga has different practices, they have a unified goal: the state of pure bliss and oneness with the universe.

49. Yoga can improve orgasms. When a person has an orgasm, the pelvic floor muscles that run between the legs rapidly contract. In yoga, the pelvic floor muscles are known as moola bandha. Yoga strengthens them, providing benefits similar to Kegel exercises.

50. Researchers at the Universite Catholique de Louvin showed that a woman's sexual history, specifically if she regularly experiences vaginal orgasm, could be detected in the way she walks.

51. Most babies begin to walk around 13 months, though some may start as early as 9 or 10 months and as late as 15 or 16 months.

52. A 150-pound man burns 100 calories per mile walking. A 200-pound man burns 133 calories per walking mile. And a 250-pound man burns 166 calories per mile. A person burns essentially the same amount of calories whether they run or walk a mile. Running just gets a person to a destination faster.

53. The yoga symbol "Om" is found in Hindu and Tibetan philosophy. It is said to be the primordial sound of the universe and is connected to the Ajna Chakra (the conscience) or "third eye" region.

54. Yoga has been called one of the first and most successful products of globalization.

55. An Indian study claims that yoga can help premature ejaculation (PE).

56. The average human walking speed is about 3.1 miles per hour, or 5.0 kilometers per hour.

57. The Guinness World Records currently lists 85-year-old Bette Calman from Australia as the world's oldest yoga teacher. However, 90-year-old yoga teacher Gladys Morris from Royton, Oldham, is petitioning the Guinness World Records to be recognized as the oldest.

58. Doga is a type of yoga in which people use yoga to achieve harmony with their pets. Dogs can either be used as props for their owners or they can do the stretches themselves. It reportedly started in New York in 2002 when Suzi Teitelman started "Yoga for Dogs.'

59. A 2000 study reported that walking regularly (three times or more a week for half an hour or more) saves $330 a year in health care costs.

60. Walking helps prevent osteoporosis. Research shows that postmenopausal women who walk around one mile per day each day have higher whole-body bone density than women who walk less.