Fact or Cap
Shaving your hair will cause it to grow back much thicker and darker than it was before.
What is cap?
Shaving only blunts the hair tip, making it feel coarser as it grows out.
This is the first thing you should do to your face in the morning to remove the sweat and hair oils that build up while you slept.
What is wash your face/ wash it.
These two items of clothing must be changed for a fresh pair every single morning?
What is socks and underwear?
How often should you trade your old toothbrush for a new one?
This is the term for the massive, confusing process of a child's body maturing into an adult's.
What is puberty?
Eating greasy food like pizza or chocolate is the #1 cause of teenage acne.
What is cap?
Hormones and genetics are the main causes, though a balanced diet is still better for your skin.
This ingredient, found in smell-good soaps and body washes like Axe or Bath & Body Works, is the #1 reason skin gets red, itchy, and irritated.
What is fragrance (or perfume)?
The sticky, fuzzy, yellow-ish thing grows on your teeth while you sleep and causes morning breath.
What is plaque?
In your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to fill up this many swimming pools.
Two
These chemical messengers are released by the brain to tell the body it's time to start growing and changing.
What are hormones?
The average phone screen carry more bacteria per square inch than the toilet seat?
What is fact?
(We touch our phones so much and rarely clean them; they are a hot spot for germs).
Your hair and nails are made of this specific substance: if you do not eat enough of it, they will become brittle and dull.
What is Keratin/ Protein?
This body part can hold over 2,000 species of bacteria. If it smells like old cheese, it's because you aren't scrubbing the bottom of it.
What is your belly button?
It takes this many muscles to frown, but only this many to smile.
(Both double-digit numbers higher than 10)
43 to frown
17 to smile
While you might feel like an adult at 18, your brain's decision-making center (Prefrontal Cortex) is still under construction until you hit this specific age.
What is 25 years old?
Hand sanitizer is a perfect replacement for soap and water and works better at cleaning dirty hands.
What is cap?
Sanitizer kills germs, but it doesn't remove dirt, grease, or chemicals.
You need 15 minutes of sun for this vitamin, but staying out longer without SPF actually "thickens" your skin, trapping oil inside.
What is Vitamin D?
90% of bad breath comes from the bacteria living on this specific body part.
What is your tongue?
A 20oz bottle of regular soda contains this many teaspoons of sugar.
(Triple the daily limit for a teen)
What is 16-19 teaspoons?
During puberty, your brain starts releasing this sleep hormone two hours later than it used to, which is why you have trouble falling asleep at 9 PM.
What is Melatonin?
People with darker skin tones are naturally protected from the sun and do not need to wear sunscreen.
What is cap?
While more melanin provides some protection, everyone can get skin damage, sunspots, and skin cancer. Sunscreen is for everybody).
T/F- Human sweat is naturally odorless until it touches the bacteria on your skin.
What is true?
If you keep your toothbrush on the counter and flush with the lid open particles can travel this many feet and land on your bristles.
What is six feet?
This is the total number of different species of bacteria that live in the human mouth.
What is over 700?
Because your brain is re-writing itself, a middle schooler actually requires more sleep than a 1st grader or a fully grown adult to function correctly. How many hours of sleep is that?
What is 9-10 hours?