15 Fascinating Heart Health Facts
While you are probably familiar with a few heart-healthy tips, there are some fun facts about the heart that you may not know.
- You can easily check you heart size. Your heart is about the size of two hands clasped together.
- Your heart weigh between 280 to 340 grams in men and 230 to 280 grams in women.
- There are 95 600 kilometre of blood vessels in your body.
- Regular exercise is crucial to heart health. Your activity level can be the greatest risk to heart disease.
- Your heart is the ultimate pump. You heart pumps about 5.7 litres of blood throughout the body.
- Your heart has it is own electrical supply. That means it is capable of beating even if it is separated from you body.
- The blue whale has THE largest heart. It weighs more than 180 kilograms.
- Be happy, lower stress. Happiness can lower your risk of heart disease. Laughing is good for your heart.
- An adult heart can beat about 100 000 times each day. That is about 3 billion beats in a lifetime.
- Women’s heartbeat faster. A woman’s average heart rate is 8 beats per minute fast than a man’s heartbeat.
- Heart disease has been around a long time. It is even be found in 3 000-year-old mummies.
- Sleeping slows your heart. But do not worry its normal. It is common for your heart rate to drop below 60 beats per minutes, even lower depending on the individual. Your metabolism slows down when you sleep which relaxes you and your heart.
- Heart attacks happen most often on Monday mornings
- No one knows why the heart is associated with love.
- New-born babies have the fastest heart beats.
Your heart affects every part of your body. That also means that diet, lifestyle, and your emotional well-being can affect your heart. Emotional and physical health are both important for maintaining a healthy heart.