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43. A Healthy Heart
Smaller than your fist, your muscular heart just
on and on. It will beat more than
times a minute for 70 years or more.
’s something that most of us take for granted.
it’s an amazing fact.
Sixty times a minute
60 minutes is 3,600 times. What physical thing
most of us do 3,600 times in one
? Blink? Maybe. Tap our fingers on the desk?
. Jump up and down? Certainly not! But our
keeps beating, hour after hour. Every day, it
almost 2,000 gallons of blood through our blood
. It takes you about five years to drink
,000 gallons of water.
And, unlike your knees or
back, your heart does all this work without
complaining! You never know that it’s even there.
heart is such a reliable “silent partner” that
forget to care for it. For many, the
indication that their heart isn’t functioning properly is
fatal heart attack! Over 650,000 Americans die annually
some kind of heart disease. Cancer kills 560,000,
kills 143,000, and accidents kill 118,000 Americans annually.
accidental deaths, many heart disease-related deaths can be
if people simply follow the advice of the
. Unfortunately, most people seem to listen to a
voice in their head that says, “It won’t
to me.” So these people keep on smoking
drinking. They continue to eat too much meat.
their only “exercise” is getting off the sofa
get something out of the refrigerator.
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