This 'Did You Know' post is about the heart.
Here are seven facts about this truly amazing part of the human body.
1. The average heart beats 80 times a minute! This adds up to around 115,000 times a day, or 42 million times a year!
2. Every day the heart creates enough energy to drive a truck 20 miles.
3. The heart starts to beat at around four weeks after conception, and continues to do so until your death.
2. Every day the heart creates enough energy to drive a truck 20 miles.
3. The heart starts to beat at around four weeks after conception, and continues to do so until your death.
5. A new-born has a much faster heartbeat, beating from 70 to 190 beats per minute.
6. A females heart is smaller than a males by about 25%. Because of this, the female heart has to beat around six times more than a male heart to pump the correct amount of blood around the body.
7. The ‘thud-thud’ a heartbeat makes is the sound made by the four valves of the heart opening and closing.
As well as eating sensibly, staying active is one of the best things you can do for your heart. Regular movement keeps your blood flowing, helps control blood pressure, and supports a healthy weight – all of which reduce the risk of heart disease. It’s important to note that you don’t need to do anything strenuous to feel the benefits.
Gentle Ways to Keep Moving
If high-impact exercise feels overwhelming, there are plenty of low-impact ways to stay active:
- Walking – Even a short stroll each day can improve circulation and boost heart health.
- Chair exercises – Great for improving flexibility and strength without putting strain on your joints.
- Stretching – Helps with mobility, balance, and reducing stiffness.
Fruit and Vegetables are good for the heart,
they are full of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that help protect your heart.
Make sure you eat well and eat wisely, your heart will thank you for it!
All posts within this blog are provided for general information only, and should not be treated as a substitute for the medical advice of your own doctor or any other health care professional. If you have any concerns about your general health, including medication, you should contact your Doctor/local health care provider.
If you may have any food allergies, or underlying health issues these must always be taken into account, and if you are a diabetic and not sure how certain foods may affect your blood sugars, test is best, i.e. use your meter.
All the best Jan
If you may have any food allergies, or underlying health issues these must always be taken into account, and if you are a diabetic and not sure how certain foods may affect your blood sugars, test is best, i.e. use your meter.
All the best Jan
27 comments:
No sabía tantas cosas sobre el corazón. Te mando un beso.
Always enjoy these posts. Lots of interesting information. Thanks.
My little pedal device is the way I get most of my exercise. I hope that works.
Exercising muscles produce endorphin which repair tissues and brain
How unfair nature is towards women in some things! 25%!
Actually I do feel fit, yet my heart sometimes races over a longer time, though. Found no doctor who took it serious. Not even in hospital where it raced with pulse around 200 for around 2 hours, no meds helping. Seems to still count as "normal"... Explains the 25%.
For me it's a fascinating subject, the heart.
Those are amazing facts about the heart; almost incredible when you stop and think about how we're made💗
Great information my friend!
Happy weekend...
hugs
Donna
Great information and post. I am doing a lot of walking, I should be doing more exercises for balance. Take care, enjoy your day!
It is important to look after our heart. :-D
What a coincidence! You wrote down this post about heart health just a few days after I had got a coronary angiogram ... the cardiologist told me to get such a diagnostic test, as he knows I go to the gym three times a week, and I am 63 years old. He said coronary angiogram gives him many information about heart health. The diagnostic test has not identified any blockage in the coronaries. I got the coronary angiogram at Rome's St. Peter hospital.
That's really an interesting post about heart health. I agree on walking, Jan. I try to walk at least 5km per day. Thank you for sharing!
How interesting. I only knew two of those facts. It's always good to learn new things.
...I need to move more!
Hello Jan :)
A lot of heart facts I didn't know. I do chair exercises and use my little peddle bike and sometimes just walk around the exterior of my house which is flat to exercise.for 15 to 20 mins. Not much I know, but I suppose it's better than nothing
All the best
Sonjia
These are all interesting facts and good tips, too. I'm looking forward to better walking weather!
I did know a few of those.
being a nurse, i knew most of this but it was fun to refresh my memory!! they are jolly facts!!
Very interesting
good advice for sure..thanks
I had congenital heart defects, which is how I ended up paralyzed and in a wheelchair.
Buenos consejos nos dejas Camino todos los días unos 6, 7 km. Buen marzo para Todos.
Gracias Jan 🤗
Un abrazo.
Interesting things about the heart.
You find the most interesting articles Jan, thank you! All the best!
I didn't know about womens hearts being smaller and that babies have a higher heart beat, it is amazing what all it does for us, I try to keep moving, I have a watch to remind me if I haven't moved in awhile to get up and move, I think that has helped me quite a bit.
The heart is an amazing organ.
Gracias por tan interesante reportaje. Besos.
I have been described by some as the world's only living heart donor.
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