Monthly Archives: April 2014
202.HOW FAST DOES HAIR GROW?
For men who are becoming a little bald, hair doesn’t grow fast enough! But in the case of a young boy, the hair seems to grow too fast!
The rate at which hair grows has actually been measured and found to be about 12 millimeters a month. The hair doesn’t grow at the same rate throughout the day but seems to follow a kind of rhythm.
201.HOW DO WE TASTE OUR FOOD?
Taste depends on the impact of the atoms given off by a substance on certain specially sensitive organs in our bodies. If the atoms of a substance can’t move about freely, we can’t taste it. That’s why we can only taste things that are in a state of solution.
Animals that live in water have taste buds all over their bodies. For instance, fish can taste with their tail fins! Animals that live on land have their taste buds concentrated in their mouths, and in man they exist only on the tongue.
200.WHAT IS LEPROSY?
Since ancient times, the disease we call leprosy has terrorized man. Aside from what it did to a person’s body, a person with leprosy was forced to live away from other people. No one wanted to come near him or have him around; a leper had to spend the rest of his life alone.
Today we know much more about leprosy and treat this disease differently. Leprosy is an infectious or contagious disease which affects the skin or the nerves, or both. The bacteria that cause the infection were discovered by a Norwegian named Hansen, so leprosy is also known as Hansen’s Disease.
