9 April 2013

HEART HEALTH - Facts About Human Heart








By: DoYouKnow.IN | Views: 2736 | Date: 21-Oct-2011



Here you will find some unknown facts and interesting general knowledge about Heart.

Heart


·         Women hearts beat faster than men.
·       Three years after a person quits smoking, there chance of having a heart attack    is the same as someone who has never smoked before.
·       The human heart weighs less than a pound.
·       The human heart can create enough pressure that it could squirt blood at a
   distance of 
thirty feet.
·       The first open heart surgery was performed by Dr. Daniel Hall Williams in 1893.
·       Scientists have discovered that the longer the ring finger is in boys the less
   chance
 they have of having a heart attack.
·       The right lung of a human is larger than the left one. This is because of the space
   and placement of the heart.
·       The human heart beast roughly 35 million times a year.
·       Olive oil can help in lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk
   of
 heart complications.
·       In a lifetime, the heart pumps about one million barrels of blood.
·       In 1967, the first successful heart transplant was performed in Cape
   Town, 
South Africa.
·       People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke
   or heart attack.
·       Most heart attacks occur between the hours of 8 and 9 AM.
·       At one time it was thought that the heart controlled a person's emotions.

By: DoYouKnow.IN