Eating five or six small meals throughout the day rather than three large meals can help you gain weight, according to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This may also help with the anxiety and stomach discomfort many anorexics feel when they try to suddenly increase meal size as a way to ingest more calories.
Some kinds of signals, like the ones for muscle position travel on extra-fast nerve impulses at speeds of up to 390 feet per second (119 meter/second). Close your eyes and wave your arms around: you can tell where they are at every moment because the muscle-position nerves are very fast â¦.
No, according to [1], which is referenced by Wikipedia, the leader travels at 61 km/s and the return stroke at 27800 km/s. These speeds are much less than the speed of light (299792 km/s). This is because the leader moves in steps of several tens on metres in less than a microsecond (Î¼s), but these steps have an interval of the order of 50 Î¼s.