Map Of The Heart
February 16, 2009 by jody
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
While searching Nova my husband came across a very interesting article, I thought I would share it with you.
In the article you will find facts such as, the human heart beats 100,000 times per day.
The human body contains 6 quarts of blood, which circulates throughout the human body 3 times per minute. In one day alone the blood in your body travels 4 times the distance across the United States, or a total of 12,000 miles.
Your blood starts and stops as it moves throughout the arteries, this movement is known as a pulse. Adults pulse rate on average is 70 beats per minute. Children’s resting pulse rate is in the range 90 to 100 beats per minute.
The muscles in the human heart work twice as hard as the muscles in your legs while sprinting.
When you are squeezing a tennis ball with a lot of pressure, you are using the same amount of force that the heart uses to pump blood throughout the human body.
To see the entire article click here Nova map of the human heart.
