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>BENEFITS OF WALKING<

Walking brings significant health benefits to body and mind. Research shows that regular walking contributes much to your over all health and fitness in important ways:

1. Strengthens your heart
2. Delays or prevents major diseases or illness
3. Reduces blood pressure and the risk of stroke
4. Reduces cholesterol
5. Strengthens joints and bones
6. Helps control weight
7. Improves mood and self-esteem
8. Contributes to “brain fitness”
9. Gives you energy and a good night’s rest
10.Relieves stress and worry
11.Improves balance and circulation
12.Boosts immune system

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A new scientific instrument, a "time machine" of sorts, built by UCLA astronomers and colleagues, will allow scientists to study the earliest galaxies in the universe, which could never be studied before.
The five-ton instrument, the most advanced and sophisticated of its kind in the world, goes by the name MOSFIRE (Multi-Object Spectrometer for Infra-Red Exploration) and has been installed in the Keck I Telescope at the W.M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
MOSFIRE gathers light in infrared wavelengths -- invisible to the human eye -- allowing it to pe*****te cosmic dust and see distant objects whose light has been stretched or"redshifted" tothe infrared by the expansion of the universe.
"The instrument was designed to study the most distant, faintest galaxies,"

13/04/2012

1. There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body– laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times
2. At over 2000 kilometers long,The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth
3. The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300years
4. A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons
5. A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs
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6. Blood sucking hookworms inhabit 700 million people worldwide
7. The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle is 166.94mph, by Fred Rompelberg
8. We can produce laser light a million times brighter than sunshine
9. 65% of those with autism are left handed
10. The combined length of the roots of a Finnish pine tree is over 30 miles
11. The oceans contain enough salt to cover all the continents to a depth of nearly 500 feet.

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