amazing facts about the heart

1. Extend your arm and make a fist. When you look at it, you’re seeing about how big an organ your heart is. You probably never stop to think of everything your heart does .. (of course you don’t – we take it for granted don’t we?) Let’s look at a few amazing facts ..

2. Your heart beats about 100,000 times in 1 day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times.

3. In the course of that day the heart beats about 100,000 times pumping 2,000 gallons of blood many times through about 60,000 miles of blood vessels

4. In under 1 minute your heart can pump blood to every cell in your body

5. Your body has about 5.6 liters (6 quarts) of blood. These 5.6 liters of blood circulates through the body three times every minute. In one day, the blood travels a total of 12,000 miles--that's four times the distance across the US from coast to coast.

6. The heart pumps about 1 million barrels of blood during an average lifetime--that's enough to fill more than 3 super tankers.

7. Pretty amazing isn’t it? All done by a muscular bundle most of us keep running on pizza and burgers while barely taking care of it. Thanks and a tip of the hat to LiveScience.com and NOVA.com Think of your loyal heart and start exercising and eating right today to get the most of the extended warranty you’ve been given – you can’t buy service like that.