Meet Ms Average Meet Ms Average ; She Grows 590 Miles of Hair, Spends Six Years of Her Life Dreaming, Is Born with a Million Eggs Oh, and She has Brown Eyes Good Health
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AS WE carry out our daily routine, we are usually unaware of the sophisticated functions of our bodies.Yet humans are life's most complex organism and every second, some perfectly timed and complicated procedure is taking place in our body to keep us alive and healthy - mostly without us even realising it. But what does it take for the average woman - who has a 77-year lifespan - to function? Here ANGELA EPSTEIN takes you on a guided tour.
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Meet Ms Average Meet Ms Average ; She Grows 590 Miles of Hair, Spends Six Years of Her Life Dreaming, Is Born with a Million Eggs Oh, and She has Brown Eyes Good Health
HER brain is a mass of nerve tissue attached to the spinal cord. Yet at 3.3lb, the brain weighs only 2 per cent of her body weight. Messages to and from the brain are moving along her spinal nerves at 432 km/h. At any one moment, her brain receives abo...
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