Fun And Interesting Sports Facts

1. Fun And Interesting Sports Facts

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2. 1. The Olympic rings

The 5 Olympic rings
represent the 5 major
regions of the world Africa, the Americas,
Asia, Europe and
Oceania, and every
national flag in the
world includes one of
the 5 colours, which are
(from left to right) blue,
yellow, black, green and
red.

3. 2. Golf on the moon

Golf is the only sport to
be played on the moon.
On 6th February 1971,
Alan Shepard hit a golf
ball on the moon.

4. 3. Olympic gold medals

Olympic gold medals are
actually made mostly of
silver.

5. 4. Snowboarders Or Swimmers?

Snowboarders and ice
skaters glide on a thin
layer of water as their
skates and boards heat
the snow beneath them.

6. 5. Lazy doctors

Four out of five doctors
don’t get enough
exercise.

7. 6. Equal evils

A lack of exercise is now
causing as many deaths
as smoking across the
world, a study suggests.

8. 7. Restaurant again?

People who regularly eat
dinner or breakfast in
restaurants double their
risk of becoming obese.

9. 8. Heavy laughter

Laughing 100 times is
equivalent to 15 minutes
of exercise on a bicycle.

10. 9. Water instead of Soda

1 Can of Soda a day
increases your chances
of getting type 2 diabetes
by 22%.

11. 10. McDonalds' Caesar

McDonalds' Caesar salad
is more fattening than
their hamburger.

12. 11. Fat chicken

Chicken contains 266%
more fat than it did 40
years ago.

13. 12. Complain more

On average, people who
complain live longer.
Releasing the tension
increases immunity and
boosts their health.

14. 13. Too much shower

In terms of your
health —not how you
look or smell— you only
really have to shower
once or twice a week.

15. 14. 6-pack abs

Six-pack abs indicate
nothing about your
strength, your flexibility,
your stamina, your
speed, or your overall
level of health.

16. Dangerous And Weird Things People Do In Order To Lose Weight

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E A T I N G R I G H T A N D E XE R C I S I N G I N O RD E R
T O L O S E WE I GHT A N D GI V E A S HA P E T O O U R
B O D Y . T H O U GH THE R E A R E M A N Y O THE R
T H I N G S L I K E S U R G E R Y, P I L L S A N D C R A S H
D I E T S TH A T C AN HEL P Y O U LO S E WEI G H T
INSTANTLY.

17. 1. Jaw wiring

Nowadays, people get
their jaws wired in
order to refrain from
eating solid food and
lose weight only by
having liquids. It is
also a fad because it
gives jaw some
movement and free
speech, but restricts
the person from eating
solid food.

18. 2. Cigarette smoking

Smoking kills the taste
buds and thus makes
any food you eat
tasteless. Also
cigarette contains
tobacco and its main
ingredient is nicotine,
which naturally keeps
the appetite down on
its own. There it is, if
one smokes more, that
person would eat less.

19. 3. A unique tongue patch

The patch makes it
extremely hard for
anyone trying to eat solid
food, as the whole
process becomes too
painful. This makes the
person go on a liquid diet
that is full of just 800
calories a day. If you are
thinking of getting it,
despite it looking damn
painful, it would cost you
$2,000.

20. 4. Feeding via a tube

This method is usually
employed when people are
injured or severely ill to eat
food via mouth and hence
nutrition is given to them
via a feeding tube inserted
via the nose, straight to the
stomach. But now, to-be
brides have found a new
use for this medical
method, to lose weight in
short time before marriage.

21. 5. Sleeping beauty diet

While you sleep, you
force your body to burn
up energy that is already
stored in the body and
therefore, losing weight
in the process. People
use sleeping pills in
order to sleep for days
and it is a method
popularized by singer
Elvis Presley.

22. 6. Vision diet

The Japanese have
come up with an idea to
make the food more
disgusting and
unappealing to the eyes,
so they decided to make
glasses with blue
colored lense. It makes
the food look less
appealing and make you
eat as little as possible.