Some interesting facts related to heart
- A normal person’s heart beats 72 times in a minute, 100,000 times a day and 360 million times in a year.
- The average heart weight of men is between 300–350 grams while the weight of women ’s heart is between 250–300 grams.
- Everyone has often heard that our heart is on the left side of the body, but this is not true. Our heart is in the middle of the chest but the left side is slightly tilted.
- Our heart pumps around 2,000 gallons of blood every day.
- An electrical system controls the heart’s rhythm. This is called a cardiac conduction system.
- People who eat non-vegetarian food have a 19% higher heart rate than people who eat vegetarian food.
- If the heart is separated from the body, it still keeps beating, as long as it gets enough oxygen, because it has its own electrical impulse.
- The heart starts functioning when the baby is only 4 weeks old in its mother’s stomach.
- A report has shown that people who consume more liquid, fast digestible food, drugs like BD, tobacco, alcohol. Those people have a higher chance of heart attack than other people.
- There are four chambers in our heart, two upwards and two downwards and these are for bringing and carrying blood.
- Our heart releases 75 trillion cells present in the body, leaving the cornea cells found in the eye.
- Laughing is good for our heart. It reduces stress and boosts your immune system.
- The sound of our heartbeat is caused by the opening and closing of its valves.
People sleeping less than 7 hours and waking up late at night are more at risk of getting heart disease. - Our heart is down on the left side of the lung and this is the reason why the left part of our lung is slightly smaller which protects the heart.
- Your heartbeat changes according to the song you listen to.
- Our heart generates so much energy in a day that if this energy is used, a truck can be pulled up to 32 kilometers and if all the energy is used throughout life, then it can reach the moon and return.
- No one can control the process of the heart, the heart keeps working continuously in every situation, whether you are sleeping, awake or unconscious.
- Do you know that a child born has the fastest heartbeat (70–160 beat/minute) and in old age, the heartbeat is slowest (30–40 beat/minute).
- A scientific research has shown that the maximum heart attack comes on Monday because after Sunday’s holiday, work stress comes back on Monday morning.