+ Heart Health

Morgan DriscollPaige SquireCari Kaiser-SielbachKrysta Doely

+What is the heart?

Your heart is an organ that supplies blood and oxygen throughout your entire body.

It is the size of your clenched fist. The heart weighs the same as

about two deck of cards.

+Where is the heart located?

The heart is located on the

Left side of your chest.

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Blood is pumped away from the heart through your arteries, and veins pump blood back to your heart.

Your heart pumps blood throughout your entire body, through your veins!

+What is Pulse?

Your pulse is a rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart.

When your heart beats faster, your pulse will be faster too such as while exercising

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+Ever noticed how you get warmer while exercising? Does anyone know what oxygen is?

This is because your brain needs oxygen and so your heart will beat faster to pump new blood into your brain and throughout your body.

+How your blood receives more oxygen All your blood enters the right side of the heart through

2 veins. The Superior Vena Cava (SVC) and the Inferior Vena Cava (IVC)

After the blood enters the heart, it then pumps into your lungs to get oxygen then goes to the left side to be returned to the body full of oxygen.

+Let’s feel our pulse again

Is it fast or slow?

Is it faster or slower than before?

We are also warmer now since the blood is flowing faster through our bodies

+Our pulse It may be faster now, since we

just did Jumping Jacks, on average the heart beats 72 beats/minute at a resting state.

The resting state will change as we get older

Newborn 1303 months

140

6 months

130

1 year 1202 years 1153 years 1004 years 1006 years 1008 years 9012 years 85Adult 60-100

+What is Heart Disease?

Heart disease, also called cardiovascular disease, mainly affects older people and means that there are problems with the heart and blood vessels.

+What can cause Heart Disease?

Heart defects you're born with (congenital heart defects)

High blood pressure Diabetes Smoking Excessive use of caffeine Stress

+How can we keep our heart’s healthy? Eat a heart healthy diet. Exercise everyday. Live tobacco free.

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Heart Healthy Nutrition

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AVOIDFats

Sugars

Unhealthyoils

Salts

+Eat more . . .

+What should you giveyour heart?