Healthy Home Newsletter May 2019 - Volume XVll, Issue 5 | Página 2

Get Inspired Health Corner 5 Little Known Health Facts Add to your health knowledge and astound friends and family with the truth behind some of the most common health-related misconceptions. Outstanding Client Of The Month! Suzanne Dupuis A new client that was great to work with – Thank you! Every month I choose a very special Client of The Month. It’s my way of acknowledging loyal clients and saying a big “Thank you!” to those who support me and my business with referrals and repeat business…You could be my next Client of The Month! 1. Black coffee does not sober up an intoxicated person. It will wake the person up, but will not change the alcohol levels in the bloodstream. It is better to drink fruit juice and water. 2. The colour of your hair determines how many hairs you start with. Blonde people start with about 140 000, brunettes about 108 000 and redheads only 90 000. Hair grows more quickly at night and dark hair at a greater speed than blonde hair. 3. Fingernails grow faster than toenails. It is thought that the reason for this might be that sunlight stimulates nail growth, and feet are often covered. 4. Three quarters of all the food we eat on this planet come from eight types of grains: maize, rice, wheat, oats, barley, sorghum, millet and rye. 5. The myth that spinach is extremely rich in iron, is the result of a Save Money While You Let Me Do Your “Spring Cleaning” For You! printing error. Many decades ago, a table indicating nutritional values of certain food types, put the decimal point, indicating the iron content of spinach, one position too far to the right, thereby increasing its supposed iron content tenfold. Despite the mistake being rectified more than 70 years ago, public perception hasn’t changed. Quote for May… “All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” -Abraham Lincoln