Your Heart

How it works and how to make it stronger.

Jeff Ziegler Web Dropin #4

As we complete this unit on diet and exercise I would like to take one more opportunity to look at the most amazing organ of the body, the heart.

First, visit this informative website and read the article on the heart.

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4642

Second, take a look at the blood flow through the heart. Look at this website for the journey that blood takes in order to allow you to live:

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1557

The anatomy of the heart

Answer the following questions:

1) From the entrance to the exit of the heart, complete the journey blood takes naming valves, ventricles, atriums, veins, and arteries.

2) How many gallons a day does your heart pump?

3) Over a 70-year lifetime, how many gallons would your heart have pumped?

4) Blood brings what two very important things to the bodies organs and muscles?

Be part of saving lives while you strengthen your heart! Check out this site to learn more! http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3053039