Sentences with phrase «percent of the human body»

Sixty - five percent of the human body is made up of water (5 % is suntan lotion, and the remaining 30 % is believed to be licorice and nachos), which may account for why we enjoy pools so much.

This ability proved useful since up to 60 percent of the human body is composed of water.

Four percent of the human body is composed of 21 macro and electrolyte forming trace minerals that are essential for life.

Not exact matches

The distinction between the nuclear and traditional family was also blurred in the recent report on human sexuality by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) titled Keeping Body and Soul Together: «Although many Christians in the post-World War II era have a special emotional attachment to the nuclear family, with its employed father, mother at home, and two or more school - aged children, that profile currently fits only 5 percent of North American households.»

Tests by the CDC show that eating venison and other game can raise the amounts of lead in human bodies by 50 percent

Previous research had suggested that levels of BPA, which mimics the female hormone estrogen in the human body, declined by 50 percent every five hours after it was ingested in foods or water it had leached into from plastic containers.

These C3 grasses and legumes have been shown to lose up to 15 percent of zinc and iron, the top two minerals in the human body, in experiments that artificially enhanced the concentration of carbon dioxide.

The dosages used in human executions are, in some cases, lower by body weight than the dosages that would kill only 50 percent of mice and from which monkeys have been able to successfully recover.

«Over the past 300 years,» Fogel says, «humans have increased their average body size by over 50 percent, average longevity by more than 100 percent, and greatly improved the robustness and capacity of vital organ systems.»

«We have animal literature, which shows direct links between exposure and adverse health outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead author.

While accounting for just 2 percent of our body weight, the human brain devours 20 percent of the calories that we eat.

Although almonds contain about 55 percent fat, lead researcher Giusy Mandalari, a biologist, says that humans absorb less than half of that largely because the oils in almonds are stored behind a tough cell wall that must be broken for our bodies to absorb them.

«The elements we measure include the atoms that make up 97 percent of the mass of the human body.»

Human biology is not only manipulated by mutations; it is also influenced by the trillions of microbial residents — including viruses — that make up an estimated fifty percent of the cells in the human Human biology is not only manipulated by mutations; it is also influenced by the trillions of microbial residents — including viruses — that make up an estimated fifty percent of the cells in the human human body.

The bacteria in the human body are very difficult to study, since only about 1 percent of them can be grown in the lab.

Like I said, these three amino acids are essential (the human body can't synthesize them — they must be obtained from the diet) and they form the biggest part of muscle protein which is about 33 percent.

The human body is comprised of 10 percent human cells and 90 percent non-human cells.

Sixty percent of the adult human body is comprised of water.

In fact, human growth hormone medications are 100 percent natural and pure bio-identical replicas of the body's natural hormone.

Complicating matters further, Dr. Mary Enig, PhD, MACN, has pointed out that the PS naturally formed in the human body consists of 37.5 percent stearic acid and 24.2 percent arachidonic acid.

The human body is made up of 60 percent Type II collagen, and Hydrolyzed Type II collagen contains the amino acids found in human cartilage.

While times have certainly changed since the Fred Flintstone days, the human body hasn't quite evolved to keep up, with the digestive tract about 99 percent similar to a caveman's digestive tract, explains JJ Virgin, nutrition and fitness expert and author of The Virgin Diet.

The human brain is over 65 percent fat, our hormones are made from fat, and so is the outer layer of every single cell in the body.

Your body is even made up of ninety percent bacteria cells and only ten percent human cells.

Understanding that the human body is comprised of roughly 60 - percent water (the actual level depends on factors like age, sex and muscle mass), it shouldn't be hard to grasp that pretty much every bodily function depends on and is affected by hydration level.

In the human body, however, more than ninety percent of the GSH exists in its reduced form.

While there are many types of turmeric to enjoy, the concern with the plant is its lack of bioavailability (ability to be absorbed by the human body) and the fact that turmeric only comprises up to 6 percent of curcumin, so it's important to double - check the standardized amount of curcumin in any supplement you may be taking.

The human brain weighs three pounds and uses 20 percent of the body's oxygen and glucose.

A BCS of 7/9 is indicative of approximately 30 percent or more body fat, which is a critical level for obesity in humans.

There are concerns about the impact on the human body: «One study carried out in the US found that 93 percent of Americans over the age of six tested positive for BPA (a [hormone - disrupting] chemical found in plastic).»

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

Fifty - five percent of human communication is conveyed through body language and only seven percent is conveyed through words.