{"id":1984,"date":"2017-03-07T18:41:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diet-nutritional-advice.com\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2019-01-18T07:11:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T12:11:48","slug":"strongest-muscle-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gccihome.com\/travel\/strongest-muscle-body\/","title":{"rendered":"The Strongest Muscle in your Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diet-nutritional-advice.com\/?attachment_id=1986\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1986\" src=\"http:\/\/gccihome.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/strongest-muscle-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Strongest Muscle in your Body\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Many of us spend time looking at ourselves in the mirror admiring our muscles. We enjoy seeing a fit body and flexing our muscles for display. But the strongest muscle in your body is not one you can see. It is inside your chest and has many interesting features. It is your heart which beats 24 hours a day.<\/p>\n<p>Every day you are alive, your heart creates enough energy to power a truck for 20 miles of driving.<\/p>\n<div>For your whole lifetime, that would be enough to drive that truck to the moon and<span class=\"m_-6727925219843278276m_2240989129246910534Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nback.<\/div>\n<p>Your heart pumps blood to almost all of your cells,quite a feat considering there are about 75 trillion of them.<\/p>\n<div>Only our corneas receive no blood supply.<\/div>\n<h2>The Strongest Muscle in your Body<\/h2>\n<p>Of all your muscles, the heart does the most physical work.<\/p>\n<p>During a normal life span, the heart will pump about 1.5 million barrels of blood \u2013 enough to fill about 200 train tank cars.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The first heart &#8211; a tiny group of cells, begins to beat as early as when the pregnancy is in its 4th week.The biggest heart on earth belongs to the blue whale, with a heart that weighs 1,500 pounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>Studies show an interesting link between education and heart disease.\u00a0 More education = less heart disease.<\/div>\n<p>That said, heart disease is still the greatest threat to your health.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0It has even been found in mummies over 3,000 years old.<\/div>\n<p>A few things that keep your heart healthy: Lack of stress, exercise, happiness and a healthy diet!<\/p>\n<p>Of the days of the year, Christmas Day sees the most heart attacks, followed by <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_317389980\"><span class=\"aQJ\">December 26th<\/span><\/span>, followed by New Year.<\/p>\n<div>The time when the most heart attacks occur? <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_317389981\"><span class=\"aQJ\">Monday<\/span><\/span> morning.<\/div>\n<p>The size of a heart valve is roughly the size of a 50 cent coin.<\/p>\n<p>The very first pacemakers had to be plugged into the wall. Suffice to say, those patients did not do too much walking.<\/p>\n<div>The heart is amazingly resilient, and provided with oxygen,can continue beating even after separated from the body.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first cardiac cauterization was performed in 1929, with the doctor, a German surgeon by the name Werner Forssmann, putting the catheter in his own arm vein, and examining his own heart.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The first successful heart transplant was performed in 1967 by Dr. Christian Barnard of South Africa.\u00a0 The recipient only lived 18 days.\u00a0 It was a huge medical breakthrough.<\/div>\n<p>If you grab a tennis ball and squeeze it with all your might, you would roughly understand how hard the heart works to pump blood, every second of every day.<\/p>\n<h3>More Info About Your Heart<\/h3>\n<div>Typically, a woman&#8217;s heart will beat faster than a man&#8217;s.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Laughter has terrific benefits for your heart.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Laughter can actually send 20% more blood flowing through your entire body, relaxing the walls of your vessels.<\/div>\n<p>Why has the heart become such a symbol of love? Maybe it is because the ancients believed<span class=\"m_-6727925219843278276m_2240989129246910534Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\nthe heart was the center of our soul and emotion? Some historians believe it began with the Greek culture, and not before.<\/p>\n<p>People can actually die from a broken heart. After suffering a terrible loss or traumatic event,<br \/>\nthe body releases stress hormones into your bloodstream that can temporarily mimic the symptoms of a heart attack, even causing heart failure.<\/p>\n<div>A recent study in Sweden found that when a choir sings, an amazing thing happens.\u00a0 Their heart rhythms actually synchronize<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us spend time looking at ourselves in the mirror admiring our muscles. We enjoy seeing a fit body and flexing our muscles for display. But the strongest muscle in your body is not one you can see. It is inside your chest and has many interesting features. 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