Amazing facts about your Heart

Heart is an amazing and most hard working organ in your body which continues to pump out blood as long as you live. Heart, as a symbol of love gets an eternal place in our life. Livescience.com listed 10 amazing facts about your heart.

Know about your heart:

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1. Bigger heart is not a symbol for your emotional quotient. But it is a sign of underlying heart disease.

2. Bad news will disrupt your heart and lead to heart diseases due to release of stress hormones.

3. Heart is really an amazing organ. Heart beats for 1,oo,ooo times to pump 2,000 gallons of oxygen-rich blood many times through about 60,000 miles of branching blood vessels in our body per day.

4. Contrary to popular perception, heart diseases are occurring at almost similar rates in both men and women.

5. Like exercise, regular sex (3 times a week) reduces risk of death from coronary heart disease due to burning of calories.

6. Either red or white, wine has similar effect on heart.

7. Laughing will help your heart by increasing blood flow due to relaxation of blood vessels.

8. Scientists are developing stem cell therapies to cure physically damaged hearts.

9. Horse has similar heart as humans. Scientists are conducting experiments on horse hearts to understand human hearts.

10. Heart is the universal symbol of love. According to Greeks, it is a symbol of spirit. According to Chinese, heart is a symbol of happiness.

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Heart diseases are again rising

Incidence of heart diseases which has been declining due to preventive measures is again rising especially among the young, according to several studies in Western countries. Obesity and Diabetes are also major culprits for this rise in heart diseases. Heart diseases are occurring at an alarm rate especially in 35-54 age group due to their lifestyle, smoking and junk food habits. But deaths due to heart diseases are declining in old age people due to better health care services and diagnostic methods.

According to an article published in the medical journal “Archives of Internal medicine”, post-mortem reports of people who died due to other causes are showing high incidence of Coronary heart disease (unknown to them).

How to prevent Heart disease epidemic:

1. Regular health checkups for everyone aged above 35 years.

2. Stay away from smoking and tobacco chewing.

3. Junk food restaurants are your route to hell. Don’t eat refined foods and fat rich diet.

4. Old age people should take preventive drugs like Statins and aspirin.

5. Control your blood pressure and blood sugar and cholesterol levels.

6. Obesity is the major cause for chronic lifestyle diseases. It also causes cancers.

7. Don’t neglect warning signs like chest pain and breathlessness. Consult your doctor immediately.

Governments need to educate people on the harmful effects of smoking and junk food habits. They should ban advertisements on these products.