Just in case you ever need to know
...Put your hand on your heart. Did you place your hand on the left side of your chest? Many people do, but the heart is actually located almost in the center of the chest, between the lungs. It's tipped slightly so that a part of it sticks out and taps against the left side of the chest, which is what makes it seem as though it is located there.
...Hold out your hand and make a fist. If you're a kid, your heart is about the same size as your fist, and if you're an adult, it's about the same size as two fists.
...Women hearts beat faster than men.
...Give a tennis ball a good, hard squeeze. You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body. Even at rest, the muscles of the heart work hard--twice as hard as the leg muscles of a person sprinting.
...Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring finger is in boys the less chance they have of having a heart attack.
...The aorta, the largest artery in the body, is almost the diameter of a garden hose. Capillaries, on the other hand, are so small that it takes ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.
...Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. This 5.6 liters of blood circulates through the body three times every minute. In one day, the blood travels a total of 19,000 km (12,000 miles)--that's four times the distance across the US from coast to coast.
...The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime--that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers.
...Olive oil can help in lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of heart complications.
...People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
...As a blood thinner and anticoagulant, arginine may improve blood flow to and from the heart, and it may reduce excess cholesterol.
...Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 AM.
And Finally... here's the one we all want to know.
NO, your heart does not stop when you sneeze! Though it may feel like it does, your heart doesn't stop when you sneeze. Actually, a powerful positive pressure condition is created in the chest. That can change the rhythm of the heart rate, but it will not stop it.
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