Your heart’s amazing: it’s working incredibly hard every single second of every day. Don’t take it for granted!
Heart facts
• Your heart pumps 2,000 gallons of blood around your body every day
• Even at rest, your heart works twice as hard as the leg muscles of a sprinting man
• Your heart is only as big as a clenched fist and weighs just 8 to 10 ounces (250-350g)
• It pumps 100,000 times a day, 35 million times a year and over 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime
• All your blood vessels (arteries, veins and capillaries) put together are over 60,000 miles long (96,500 kilometres)(enough to circle the world more than twice), but take just 20 seconds to pump blood throughout your system
Men and women’s hearts
In matters of the heart, men and women are surprisingly similar, so it’s important that we all look after our hearts. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes 30% of premature deaths in men and 22% in women. CVD claims more lives here each year than any other condition.
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One in five men and one in seven women die from heart disease – that’s around 94,000 deaths in the UK each year; over 250 every day. (BHF statistics)
Although younger women have some protection against heart disease, if you’re going through the menopause you may find your cholesterol levels are rising slightly. This could have an impact on the health of your heart.
But CHD can often be prevented. Making small changes to your diet and lifestyle can improve your heart health and quality of life dramatically. It’s never too late to learn to love your heart.
We’re committed to helping you look after your heart
Flora is committed to helping you keep your heart amazing. Your heart is key to your health and it’s both powerful and fragile. With over 40 years’ experience developing heart healthy foods, we’re dedicated to bringing you the latest products and expert information.
