By Penny Smith
Ever questioned how your physique manages to stick upright or what occurs on your nutrition once you have eaten? good, ask yourself not more - the DK Human physique Encyclopedia has the entire solutions and extra. research all approximately what is going on inside of your physique - from the pumping energy of your center, to the remarkable skill of the mind. you are going to by no means examine your self within the comparable means back!
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When you spin, it continues to slosh around for a while even after you’ve stopped. Your brain gets confused about which way round you are, and you feel dizzy as a result. Yes, but it can take a couple of days to learn how. The more you Motion sickness Travelling in a car, boat, or plane can make you feel ill. Your eyes tell your brain that you’re staying still in the vehicle, but your body says it can feel movement. This confusion is what causes motion sickness. 47 From red to blue Lung Each major organ has an artery bringing fresh blood and a vein carrying away used blood.
Ng ue . Sweet 10,000 t ast e Salt crammed e r a s onto to r you How much saliva does an average person produce in a day? Taste Runny nose When you have a cold, tiny hairs in your nose get clogged with mucus. This stops them wafting smell particles deep into your nose and makes it difficult to smell – and taste – things. and smell Your nose and mouth are linked at the throat. Sensitive nose om oses can recog n e n iz e1 S Much of what we think of as taste is actually smell. The back of your nose is linked to your mouth so you can smell your food as you chew it.
Each time your heart beats, it squirts out a small cupful of blood and refills for the next beat. Your heart is really two pumps in one. One half pumps blood through your lungs, and the other half pumps blood around the rest of your body. Blood goes out to the body through the aorta. Blood from most of the body enters through the vena cava. Blood goes out to the lungs. One side pumps blood to Where is it? Your heart is in the middle of your chest, squeezed between the two lungs. You can feel its beat just left of the bone in the middle of your chest.