Healthy HeartVegetarian Cooking School and Lifestyle Class

4/27/10

Heart Disease

• Hypertension• High stress job• Obesity• Lack of Exercise• H igh protein diet

Heart Facts

• Human heart weighs less than a pound.• Creates enough pressure to squirt

blood 30 feet.• Beats 35 million times a year.• Pumps blood through 60,000 miles of

blood vessels.

Average oil tanker carries 2 million barrelsThe heart pumps one million barrels of blood over a lifetime. 2,000 gallons a day.

Heart Disease: Why learn about it?

That’s equivalent to 3 747 crashing every day !!!!!

Every 60 seconds a person dies from heart disease.

Is there a way to prevent most of these heart problems and the risk of sudden death?

Heart Facts• In 2006, 631,636 people died of

heart disease.• Heart disease caused 26% of

deaths—more than one in every four—in the United States.

• Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women.

• Half of the deaths due to heart disease in 2006 were women.

• Coronary heart disease is the most common type of heart disease.

• Every year about 785,000 Americans have a first heart attack.

• Another 470,000 who have already had one or more heart attacks have another attack.

• In 2010, heart disease will cost the United States $316.4 billion.

• For persons 40 years of age the lifetime risk of developing heart disease is 49% in men and 32% in women.

• Although HD is relatively rare in premenopausal women, after menopause the incidence and severity of HD increases abruptly.