OH, MY BEATING HEART!
Every day you are alive your heart creates enough energy to power a truck for 20 miles of driving.
For your whole lifetime, that would be enough to drive that truck to the moon and back.
Your heart pumps blood to almost all of your cells, quite a feat considering there are about 75 trillions of them.
Only our corneas receive no blood supply.
Of all your muscles, the heart does the most physical work.
During a normal life span, the heart will pump about 1.5 million barrels of blood - enough to fill about 200 train tank cars.
The first heart - a tiny group of cells, begins to beat as early as when the pregnancy is in its 4th week.
The biggest heart on earth belongs to the blue whale, with a heart that weighs 1,500 pounds.
Studies show an interesting link between education and heart disease. More education = less heart disease.
That said, heart disease is still the greatest threat to your health.
It has been found in mummies over 3,000 years old.
A few things that keep your heart healthy: Lack of stress, exercise, happiness and a healthy diet.
Of the days of the year, Christmas Day sees of the most heart attacks, followed by December 26th, followed by New Year.
The time when the most heart attacks occur? Monday morning.
The size of a heart valve is roughly the size of a 50 cent coin.
The very first pacemakers had to be plugged into the wall. Suffice to say, those patients did not do much walking.
The heart is amazingly resilient and provided with oxygen, can continue beating even after separated from the body.
The first cardiac catheterization was performed in 1929, with the doctor, a German surgeon by the name of Walter Forssman, putting the catheter in his own arm vein, and examining his own heart.
The first successful heart transplant was performed in 1967 by Dr. Christian Barnard of South Africa. The recipient only lived 18 days. It was a huge medical breakthrough.
If you grab a tennis ball and squeeze it with all your might you would roughly
understand how hard the heart works to pump blood every second of every day.
Typically, a woman's heart will beat faster than a man's.
Laughter has terrific benefits for your heart. Laughter can actually send 20% more blood flowing through your entire body, relaxing the walls of your vessels.
Why has the heart become a symbol of love? Maybe it is because the ancients believed the heart was the center of our soul and emotion? Some historians believe it began with the Greek culture, and not before
People can actually die from a broken heart. After suffering a terrible loss or traumatic event, the body releases stress hormones into your bloodstream that can temporarily mimic the symptoms of a heart attack even causing heart failure.
How can you mend a broken heart by THE BEEGEES
A recent study in Sweden found that when a choir sings, an amazing thing happens - their heart rhythms actually synchronizes!
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FEBRUARY IS HEART MONTH Oh, my beating heart!
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Previously Published on November 4, 2005
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Subject: Heart Attack - when no one is around
This was sent to me and I wanted to
pass on. An improved version of what I've gotten before.
Tuck this in the back of
your brain, sounds like something we should all be aware
of.
Heart Attack Procedure: NOT A JOKE
Women should also know that not every heart attack
symptom is going to
be
the left arm hurting.
Be
aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first
chest pain during the
course of a heart attack.
Nausea
and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who
have a heart attack
while they are asleep do not wake up.
The pain in the jaw happened to me and woke me from a sound
sleep.
I was one of the fortunate ones.
Trust me when I tell you it's pain
unlike anything you've ever experienced
before.
Given a
choice between natural child birth and a heart attack, pain-wise;
it's much easier to have
a baby.
Let's
be careful and be aware. The more we know..........
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends
it to 10 people,
you can
be sure that we'll save at least one life. Read this... It could
save your
life!!
Let's say it's 6.15pm and you're
driving home (alone of course), after
an unusually hard day on the job. You're tired, upset
and frustrated. Suddenly
you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to
radiate
out into your
arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from
the
hospital nearest your home.
Unfortunately you don't know if
you'll be able to make it that far. You
have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the
course did not tell
you
how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO
SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Since
many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help,
the person whose heart
is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint,
has only about 10 seconds left before losing
consciousness. However, these
victims can
help themselves by coughing
repeatedly and very
vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before
each cough, and the cough must be deep and
prolonged, as when producing
sputum from deep inside the chest.
A
breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up
until help arrives, or until
the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing
movements squeeze
the heart
and keep the blood circulating.
The
squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm.
In this way, heart
attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell
as many other people as possible about this.
It could save their
lives!!
BE A
FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS
POSSIBLE
MSN GROUPS ALT Website
*************************************************
Subject: Heart Attack - when no one is around
pass on. An improved version of what I've gotten before.
Tuck this in the back of
your brain, sounds like something we should all be aware
of.
Heart Attack Procedure: NOT A JOKE
Women should also know that not every heart attack
symptom is going to
be
the left arm hurting.
Be
aware of intense pain in the jaw line. You may never have the first
chest pain during the
course of a heart attack.
Nausea
and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who
have a heart attack
while they are asleep do not wake up.
The pain in the jaw happened to me and woke me from a sound
sleep.
I was one of the fortunate ones.
Trust me when I tell you it's pain
unlike anything you've ever experienced
before.
Given a
choice between natural child birth and a heart attack, pain-wise;
it's much easier to have
a baby.
Let's
be careful and be aware. The more we know..........
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends
it to 10 people,
you can
be sure that we'll save at least one life. Read this... It could
save your
life!!
Let's say it's 6.15pm and you're
driving home (alone of course), after
an unusually hard day on the job. You're tired, upset
and frustrated. Suddenly
you start experiencing severe pain in your chest that starts to
radiate
out into your
arm and up into your jaw. You are only about five miles from
the
hospital nearest your home.
Unfortunately you don't know if
you'll be able to make it that far. You
have been trained in CPR, but the guy that taught the
course did not tell
you
how to perform it on yourself.
HOW TO
SURVIVE A HEART ATTACK WHEN ALONE
Since
many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help,
the person whose heart
is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint,
has only about 10 seconds left before losing
consciousness. However, these
victims can
help themselves by coughing
repeatedly and very
vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before
each cough, and the cough must be deep and
prolonged, as when producing
sputum from deep inside the chest.
A
breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up
until help arrives, or until
the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing
movements squeeze
the heart
and keep the blood circulating.
The
squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm.
In this way, heart
attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell
as many other people as possible about this.
It could save their
lives!!
BE A
FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND THIS ARTICLE TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS
POSSIBLE
Published 2/7/13 altgroup multiply
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