Time Magazine Your Body

Recently I read about bone and brawn in Time Magazine Your Body pages 1-3. I learned so many new things about bones and how they function in your body and it was quite interesting. There were many great facts that I was introduced to about our body that I really wasn't aware of. A few things that I learned were, bones are the hardware of the body's movement. Muscles, joints, and cartilage are things that connects and moves our body parts. Scientists believe that bones, in most cases, are tougher than oak, granite, but a little less stronger than steel. Even once we reach adulthood our skeletal system still isn't complete. Our bones and joints are able to move in sixteen different types of motion. That is including rotation, extension, and abduction. Without bones we would be jelly. Our bones also act as shields for our body. They protect the heart, lungs, brain, and spinal cord.  We have two major bones systems: the axial skeleton, which is made up of 80 bones in the skull, ribs and sternum, and the appendicular skeleton, which contains 126 bones in the shoulders, limbs, pelvis. Bones also help us hear and speak. This article really opened my eyes to things about bones that I was never aware of.