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 I
am coping with some eye problems right now. God is good and I have
competent medical professionals caring for me.
I cannot for the life of me figure out why teeth and eyes are not
considered a part of your body when it comes to insurance. Grrrrrrr!
Daily Kos, “There are reasons dental and vision care are not
included under health insurance policies here in the United States.
They are not good reasons. But there are reasons. In terms of
dentistry, these reasons date back to the days when dentists were
more of a one-stop shop for pulling painful teeth and sending folks
on their way. Dentists weren’t considered medical doctors. For a
while, they couldn’t get into medical school if they tried. In fact,
as covered over at “The Atlantic”, there were points when barbers
provided dental care.”
Britannica AI, “Ophthalmology …. the first ophthalmologists were
oculists. These paramedical specialists practiced on an itinerant
basis during the Middle Ages.”
Cleveland Clinic, “The six muscles in each eye move faster than any
other muscles in the body.” “Your brain can interpret an estimated
10 million colors, but cone cells only detect three primary hues.”
“The image your eyes send to your brain is upside down and backward,
but your brain flips it right side up.”
The Princeton Eye Group, “Your eyes move 70-100 times per second
while you’re awake.” “On a dark night, a human eye can see a candle
flickering 30 miles away.”
Facts.net, “The average blink lasts about 1/10th of a second and
happens around 15-20 times per minute.”
The following quotes are from BESTLIFE:
“Through your life, you will produce enough saliva to fill up two
pools. The average human produces 20,000 liters of saliva throughout
their lifetime. That’s enough to eventually fill up two swimming
pools full of spit.”
“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 2016
study by the Thai Moogambigai Dental College.”
“Humans are the only animals that weep. While many animals product
tears as lubricants for their eyes, humans are the only one who cry
as an emotional response.”
I take umbrage to that. I KNOW animals become sad enough to cry.
There. That’s a L. Maxine McQueen quote.
Back to BESTLIFE:
‘’Humans have more than five senses. While we have sight, smell,
touch, taste, and hearing, humans also have proprioception (sense of
space) and nociception (sense of pain) equilibrioception (sense of
balance) thermoception (sense of temperature in and around the
body), “Temporal perception (Sense of time), and more depending on
who you ask. So, yeah, “The Sixth Sense” might need a new title.”
“Your feet contain a quarter of your bones. Human feet contain 52
bones (26 for each foot). That’s nearly a quarter of all the bones
in your whole body! Each also contains 33 joints and more than 100
muscles, tendons, and ligaments. Are your dogs barking?”
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“You lose almost one-third of your bones as you age. According to
the doctors over at the Cleveland Clinic, you’re born with about 300
bones, but as you grow, some fuse together as cartilage ossifies,
eventually leaving you with 206 bones by the time you stop growing
(once you’ve reached young adulthood).”
“There are no muscles in your fingers. Your fingers do countless
important things throughout the day, from opening jars to opening
doors. But don’t chalk up those feats of strength to your fingers.
Any movement that happens in your fingers is due to tendons and
bones, with a lot of help from the muscles in the palms of your
hands and at the base of each individual digit.”
“Half your hand strength is in your pinkie. The pinkie seems
unassuming, but it’s crucial for your hand strength…. helping the
thumb to pinch and giving more power to the ring, middle and index
fingers. Laurie Rogers told “The New York Times”, that losing your
pinkie would mean you’d lose 50 percent of your hand strength.”
“Your rear is your largest muscle.”
Well, I knew that. Now I have a quote to defend my derriere
forevermore. Hmmph! Ok, back to the rest of the quote,
“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, move your hips and thighs, and work against gravity
when you’re walking uphill or upstairs. The fact that they make your
jeans look great is just a bonus.”
My rear end is not too big. I just have impressive muscles. Yep!
That’s my new mantra.
“Your intestine is four times as long as you are. Among the many
things you probably didn’t know about your body is that your small
intestine is about 18 to 23 feet long, meaning that, if you uncoiled
it, it would stretch to almost four times your height.”
“Your gut has a ‘second brain’. We’ve all felt that butterflies in
the stomach sensation. There’s good reason for this: There’s a
network of neurons that line the gut, which some scientists have
taken to referring to as our ‘second brain’. The gut doesn’t just
handle digestion, but comes with its own reflexes and senses, and is
intricately and inextricably interwoven with your nervous system.
So, yeah, trust your gut.”
Biologist Lynn Margulis, “We are unconscious of most of our body’s
processes, thank goodness, because we’d screw it up if we weren’t.
The human body ……a system which is far more complex than we can
fully imagine. The idea that we are consciously care-taking such a
large and mysterious system is ludicrous.”
“God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our
own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. The more you like yourself,
the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” Walt
Disney.
L. Maxine McQueen
may be contacted at
maxmac.1@juno.com |
