Vital Organs: The Heart
Your entire adult life is possible thanks to an organ about the size of two tennis balls located just off centre in your chest. You can easily live without an Appendix, some disability begins to occur if you loose one of your Lungs, Kidneys, Intestines, Liver – you can even live a full life without an gall bladder- but you absolutely cannot live without a heart. This is why the Heart is considered a vital organ.
Why is a heart so important? Well without it, there wouldn’t be any blood flow within your body. Why is blood flow important? Because it’s the only way for your body to provide billions of cells with oxygen, waste disposal, communication and much more. Blood flow is as important in your body as water flow is on Earth.
Nothing can drop you faster then a heart that stops functioning or begins to act erratically, every aspect of your life, from sleeping to cooking diner requires a properly functioning heart. So why do many people take their heart for granted by smoking, eating a bad diet, not exercising- and allowing themselves to become obese?
Browsing CDC reports, there where more then half a million deaths in 2002 attributed by heart problems in the USA. Some are influenced by genetics, others by age and even social-economic background but regardless, knowledge is key to prevention. Eat a well balanced diet, exercise regularly, watch your BMI and most importantly, get yourself checked up regularly by a doctor.
The one cool thing about taking care of your heart is that directly benefits your entire body, every cell in your body will thank you with interest. So stop reading this and get that heart of your pumping!
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