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

Special Thanks to http://www.fruitsinfo.com/did-you-know.php

Category: Lifestyle