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This episode contains few facts that are of historical origin, but are amazing. I hope sure you would enjoy going through this part of the sequel.

1. Chocolate contains the same chemical, phenyl ethylamine that our brain produces we you fall in love

2. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in the ear by 700 times.

3. Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, and Dostoyevsky were all epileptics

4. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking up in the morning.

5. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it.

6. An average human loses about 200 head hairs per day.

7. 1 in every 200 people is a psychopath and they look just like everyone else.

8. If a surgeon in Ancient Egypt lost a patient while performing an operation, his hands were cut off.

9. There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.

10. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as medicine.

I recently came across few exciting pieces of facts about IQ and brain and would like to share with all the readers. I would love to see comments, criticisms and discussions!

1. People who ride on roller coasters have a higher chance of having a blood clot in the brain.

2. It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.

3. A human brain is about 80% water.

4. Our brain is move active and thinks more at night than during the day.

5. Studies have shown that children who are breast fed display IQ's up to 10 points higher by the age of three.

6. Our brain is full of nerve cells, but it has no pain receptors. Doctors can operate on our brain while we're awake and we won't even feel a thing.

Haakon E. Meyer at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the University of Oslo has concluded following an exhaustive survey research that thin men are more prone to osteoporosis than other men. The study has been published in The American Journal of Epidemiology.

Methodology

In this study, nearly 1,476 men were studied for osteoporosis in Oslo 2000-01 and Tromso 2001. These people are the people who had also participated in the Oslo survey in 1972-73 and the Tromso survey in 1974-75.

Survey Result and Inference

Treatment

The treatment of cold sores can be done by application of a suitable drug in a suitable dosage form. Mainly, 2 types of dosage forms are available:

1) Oral Unit Dosage Form
2) Topical Dosage Form

1) Topical Dosage Form-

These might be

a) Skin protectant and moisturizers, or
b) Analgesic, or
c) Anaesthetic, or
d) Anti-viral

The skin protectants and moisturizers incorporate the active pharmaceutical ingredient(API) like allantoin, dimethicone, cocoa butter, white petrolatum or glycerin to moisturize the cold sore moist as well as act as a mechanical barrier to guard the skin and lips from irritants.

Topical analgesics and anaesthetics including benzocaine, lidocaine, benzyl alcohol, camphor, menthol and phenol to control the pain resulting from the sores and also reduce the itching sensation.

Here is hot news pointing out the discrimination among the admitted patients by the hospital staff to meet the demand on a busy-hospital day. 

The present report has been giving following a hospital survey conducted by an American research group in Oregon Hospital on evaluation of the hospital data. The involved survey team consisted of Rajiv Sharma, Miron Stano, and Renu Gehring. The research survey has been published in RAND Journal of Economics.

This is really an amazing and interesting research information given by Markus Jokela and Liisa Keltikangas-Jarvinen from the University of Helsinki from the National Research and Development Center for Welfare and Health and Mika Kivimaki of University College London. They found out that those personality traits of people do influence migration patterns.

Methodology involved

The psychologist researchers selected participants from a population-based health study in Finland and studied data extending over nine years. They included information relating to personality through self-assessment questionnaires and a variety of demographic information including where participants had lived over the nine year period.

Symptoms

1) Even before a person actually come to know that he is suffering from cold sore, he/she might experience a burning or tingling sensation in the affected area.

2) This symptom is followed by occurance of small blisters within few hours or days.

3) Gradually, the area becomes reddened (rubour) and the blisters become fluid-filled.

4) However, when cold sores actually occur, the blisters dry up rapidly leaving away the scabs that may last for few days depending on the severity of infection and extent of inolulation.

Reference

 http://www.emedicinehealth.com/cold_sores/page3_em.htm

Before proceeding with the blog, I would request all the readers that these phobias aren't meant to hurt the sentiments of the readers of other people. They are only been given with an informative purpose. The bracketed comments aren't intended to hurt people's feelings. They are just written to attract the interest and humour in the blog. I request pardon if I hurt anyone's feelings.

So, here are few more ridiculous phobias!

Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom (Our parents have this for us; college students!)

Eosophobia- Fear of dawn or daylight (Vampires!)

Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge (Haha! only we students can understand! )

Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing (Oh! people even think to blush?)

Ergophobia- Fear of work (Myself!)

Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news (People even fear to be happy?)

Here is the 2nd blog on phobia in continuity. I would love to recieve comments and discussions.

1.Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria (do these people always carry disinfectants with themselves?)

2.Barophobia- Fear of gravity! (how could they expect themselves to stand on the ground then!)

3.bathroomphobia- Fear of going to bathroom on yourself!! (What about the privacy!)

4.Batonophobia- Fear of plants (people can even fear plants!)

5.Bibliophobia- Fear of books (Quite common and natural to see among college students!)

6.Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women (No man could have this phobia...Iam sure!)

7.Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting (These people don't get pain in their legs?)

8.Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirror (Do these people know how they look?)

9.Chaetophobia- Fear of hair (Bald people! huh!)

10.Chemophobia- Fear of chemicals and working with them (Not a pharmacist definitely!)

This blog would try uncovering few of the amazing facts about food items. Few might really surprise you!

Fact 1-
Chewing gum may keep a person slim by boosting the metabolic rate by about 20%

Fact 2-
Chewing gum stimulates signals in the learning center of the brain and thus help save memory as one becomes older.

Fact 3-
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.

Fact 4-
Coconut water can be used (in emergencies) as a substitute for blood plasma.
(The reason for this is that coconut water (the water found in coconuts - not to be confused with coconut milk, which comes from the flesh of the coconut) is sterile and has an ideal pH level.)

Fact 5-
The first soup was made of hippopotamus.

Fact 6-
The FDA allows an average of 30 or more insect fragments and one or more rodent hairs per 100 grams of peanut butter.