Heart Health

Over the past couple of weeks I've talked about heart health. I thought you might be interested to know some of the numbers regarding your heart and it's work load. Did you know . . . . .

• The number of heart beats in an average lifetime is 3 billion.
• A red blood cell circulates the whole body in 1 minute.
  
• In 1 minute, the number of blood cells that die and the number born are each 2 million.
• Each tiny droplet of blood contains 5 million red blood cells, 300,000 platelets, and about 7,000 white blood cells.
• Each read blood cell makes 250,000 round trips of the body, before it returns to the bone marrow where it was born, to die.
• The heart pumps 300 quarts of blood every hour.
• The life expectancy of the red blood cell is about 6 weeks.
• The heart needs to pump blood to all of the 60 trillion cells of the body multiple times a day.