Sunday, April 10, 2011

Health Tips/Tricks

Here a few skills you should know which involve general health and well being.

  • Coconut Water is sterile, an extremely good hydration/sports drink, isotonic to human blood, and in emergency situations can be used as IV fluid
  • Cure to Brain Freeze: Pressing your tongue to the roof of your mouth cures a brain freeze almost instantly
  • If you are about to sneeze, but its not happening fast enough, look into a very bright light and you will sneeze
  • See in the Dark: If you wake up at night to do something, cover one eye and leave it in darkness. The covered eye has retained ability to see well in the dark so when you turn your lights after you're done, you can easily maneuver in the dark.

11 comments:

  1. the bright light only works for about half of the people. cool facts.

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  2. also, about sneezing, if you press your whole toungue hard against the top of your mouth, it stops the urge to sneeze! followin!

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  3. Whaaat, these are wicked awesome. By coconut water, do you mean the milk? And that one eye thing just improved my quality of life.

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  4. Totally crazy man. Did not know any of those.

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  5. Yes! That last one about covering one eye, is supposedly why most pirates wore eye-patches. Not sure exactly how much that's based on reality (a lot of things we relate to pirates are dramatized - parrot on the shoulder, peg leg, X-marks-the-spot, and many other ideas all came from Treasure Island, for example) but it makes sense. If you're going from the blazing sun to below deck, they would just swap the eye patch to the other eye.

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  6. I heard about the coconut before, but never really believed stuff like this.

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  7. Cool tips! I had only heard of the sneezing tip before.

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