YOUR HEART

WHERE IS YOUR HEART?

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.

SIZE OF YOUR HEART

• 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.

• Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times.

• Feel your pulse by placing two fingers at pulse points on your neck or wrists. The pulse you feel is blood stopping and starting as it moves through your arteries. As a kid, your resting pulse might range from 90 to 120 beats per minute. As an adult, your pulse rate slows to an average of 72 beats per 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 adult heart pumps about 5 quarts of blood each minute – approximately 2,000 gallons of blood each day – throughout the body.

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Pulse RatesEveryone's pulse (average heart rate per minute) changes as we age. Here is a chart of average pulse rates at different ages:

Age PulseNewborn 130

3 months 140

6 months 130

1 year 120

2 years 115

3 years 100

4 years 100

6 years 100

8 years 90

12 years 85

adult 60 - 100

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Almost 2,000 Americans die of heart disease each day. That is one death every 44 seconds

Heart phrases1. be merciful 2. Switch your thinking 3. memorize something

4. to lose love 5. Deep understanding

6. to grieve 7. Extreme sadness

8. to want something badly9. To really believe what

someone tells you 10.To love completely

11.Display feelings opening12.Complete inner

satisfaction13.Means when something is

gone you appreciate it more

14.To make someone jealous15.Means you are telling the

truth

1. Have a heart 2. Change of heart 3. Know it by heart 4. broken heart 5. heartfelt6. cry your heart out 7. Heavy heart 8. have your heart set on 9. Take it to heart10.Love with all your heart11.Wear Heart on your

sleeve12.Heart’s content13.Absence makes the

heart grow fonder14.Eat your heart out15.Cross my heart