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5 Things You Should Know About Your Body You Have a One-of-a-Kind Tongue Print~ Just as your fingerprint is uniquely yours, so too is your tongue print, according to a study by the Thai Moogambigai Dental College. Biometric scans can be done to compare the individual shape (long or short, wide or narrow) and texture (ridges, wrinkles, and marks), with specific details tracked and mapped by a "tongue image-acquiring device." Of course, while this thing you didn't know about yo...ur body might be interesting, it probably is not very useful to forensic investigators. Taste Buds Dull With Age~ Wine may taste better as it ages, but as we age, it's harder for us to appreciate it. Just as hearing and vision tend to deplete as the years go by, your sense of taste does the same. As you get older, your taste buds regenerate more slowly after injury or if you take certain medications. And bad news for the ladies: Women generally experience a decrease in their taste sensitivity beginning in their 50s, while men don't experience that until their 60s. Your Rear Is Your Largest Muscle~ While there is some debate about which of your muscles is the strongest, your gluteus maximus happens to be your largest, according to the Library of Congress. These muscles help keep your body upright and move your hips and thighs have to work against gravity when you're walking uphill or upstairs. Oh, and they also cushion you in the seated position. Half Your Hand Strength Is in Your Pinkie~ The pinkie seems unassuming, but it's crucial for your hand strengthhelping the thumb to pinch and giving more power to the ring, middle, and index fingers. Laurie Rogers, hand therapist at National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, told the New York Times that losing your pinkie would mean, "You'd lose 50 percent of your hand strength, easily." Your Intestine Is Four Times as Long as You Are~ This just in: there are a plethora of things you didn't know about your body. Case in point: your small intestine is about 18 to 23 feet long, meaning, if you uncoiled it, it would stretch to almost four times the length of your own body.

Here is my latest blog post. It is about so much more than shelters, it is about how we can help strays and ferals in a humane fashion. I would love some feedback on it so would you please read it and share it on your wall? thanx a bunch, Malissa~

5 Things You Should Know About Your Body You Have a One-of-a-Kind Tongue Print~ Just as your fingerprint is uniquely yours, so too is your tongue print, according to a study by the Thai Moogambigai Dental College. Biometric scans can be done to compare the individual shape (long or short, wide or narrow) and texture (ridges, wrinkles, and marks), with specific details tracked and mapped by a "tongue image-acquiring device." Of course, while this thing you didn't know about yo...ur body might be interesting, it probably is not very useful to forensic investigators. Taste Buds Dull With Age~ Wine may taste better as it ages, but as we age, it's harder for us to appreciate it. Just as hearing and vision tend to deplete as the years go by, your sense of taste does the same. As you get older, your taste buds regenerate more slowly after injury or if you take certain medications. And bad news for the ladies: Women generally experience a decrease in their taste sensitivity beginning in their 50s, while men don't experience that until their 60s. Your Rear Is Your Largest Muscle~ While there is some debate about which of your muscles is the strongest, your gluteus maximus happens to be your largest, according to the Library of Congress. These muscles help keep your body upright and move your hips and thighs have to work against gravity when you're walking uphill or upstairs. Oh, and they also cushion you in the seated position. Half Your Hand Strength Is in Your Pinkie~ The pinkie seems unassuming, but it's crucial for your hand strengthhelping the thumb to pinch and giving more power to the ring, middle, and index fingers. Laurie Rogers, hand therapist at National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, told the New York Times that losing your pinkie would mean, "You'd lose 50 percent of your hand strength, easily." Your Intestine Is Four Times as Long as You Are~ This just in: there are a plethora of things you didn't know about your body. Case in point: your small intestine is about 18 to 23 feet long, meaning, if you uncoiled it, it would stretch to almost four times the length of your own body.