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The heart is a muscle that is approximately the size of a fist. The heart is one of the busiest and most strenuously worked of all of the organs in the human body. It is estimated that over the span of an average persons life,the heart beats approximately two and a half billion times without requiring the need for a rest Read the rest of this entry »

Heart attack. The words alone can send a chill down even the strongest man’s spine, and with good reason. Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death for Americans. Men have a greater risk of heart attack at a younger age than women. But the risk increases for women as they near menopause and, eventually, surpasses that of men. For all that we have romanticized it in song and fable, the heart is just a muscle about the size of your fist, but a most vital muscle it is. Your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons of life-sustaining blood through your body in the average day. When it stops working right, so do you. If the nicest thing we can say about someone is that he has a good heart, the most important thing we can say is that he has a healthy heart. You probably can decrease your risk of heart attack by changing your lifestyle in the following areas: Read the rest of this entry »

‘You are what you eat’ is something a lot of us say but a lot of us don’t actually take seriously. Not until we suffer from certain heart conditions and the doctor starts saying “you can’t eat this and you can’t eat that”, that we realize how diet and heart disease are related, that the food we eat is directly involve in many of the risk factors for coronary heart disease. Read the rest of this entry »