Healthy Habits & Fun Fruit Facts
Healthy Habits
- If you sleep eight hours each night, you will feel better.
- Avoiding acohol, drugs, and tobacco lets you stay healthy.
- Express emotions in a calm and healthy way.
- Maintain good hygiene.
- Accept your strenghts and weaknesses.
- You should be considerate.
- You should respect others.
- Most of all, you should be dependable.
Fun Fruit Facts
- Lemons can kill bacteria- as they have a high content of acid which makes them suitable for cleaning.
- A banana ripens quickly (overnight) when you put it in a brown paper bag with a apple and a banana.
- Research says eating grapefruit in the morning will help to lose an average of 3.6 pounds; it also protects you from diabetes.
- Eating apples is a more reliable method of staying awake than consuming a cup of coffee.
- Eggplants are actually fruits, and they classified botanically as a berry.
- A strawberry is actually not a berry but a banana is.
- Apples floats in water because they are 25% air.
- Pumpkins and avocados are fruits, not veggies.
- Osage oranges are used to repel cockroaches.
- Many years ago, explorers used watermelons to carry water on long expeditions.
- More than than 300 banana related accidents happened in Britain in 2001, mostly involving slipping on banana peels
- You can speed up the ripening of a pineapple by standing it on the top (the leafy end).
Written by Emma and Eliciana
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