7 Really Amazing Heart Facts
How much do you Really know about your heart?
1. Put your hand on your heart. Did you place your hand on the left side of your chest? Many people do, but your heart is actually located almost in the centre of the chest, between the lungs. It is tipped slightly so that part of it sticks out and taps against the left side of the chest, which is what makes it seem as though it is located there.
2. Make a fist with your hand. If you’re a child, your heart is about the same size as your fist, and if you’re an adult, it is about the size of two hands made into a fist (ie wrap your other hand around the hand that is already in a fist).
3. Your heart beats about 100,000 times in one day and about 35 million times in a year. During an average lifetime, the human heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times.
