ANYWAY Heart disease is the second biggest killer next to cancer. Heart disease and stroke accounted for 26.3% and 9.2% respectively of all deaths in Singapore in 2001. Approximately 2,000 people have a heart attack every year and the death rate for cardiovascular disease more than tripled between 1957 (7.7% of total deaths) and 2001 (26.3%).
THIS COULD HAPPEN TO YOU
Your heart beats an average of 100 000 times a day, that's 36 500 000 times a year! It propels about 7 litres of blood through 60 000 miles or 96560.64km of vessels, that's 20 times the distance of the USA from coast to coast! The heart pumps blood so forcefully that when one of your large arteries is cut, a JET of blood can shoot several feet in the air! I guess Kill Bill wasn't an exaggeration
Sorry but I couldn't find any picture of the part in Kill Bill where Uma Thurman slices this Jap guy's neck and the blood spurts out like a fountain.
How do heart attacks occur?
-plaque embedded in artery wall ruptures
-the wall cracks, triggering the formation of a blood clot
-the clot blocks the flow of blood to the heart muscle, which will die from lack of oxygen and nutrients
-your heart stops pumping
You would think that the more clogged your vessels are with plaque, the likely it is for you to get a heart attack but according to the National Geographic, February 2007, heart attacks generally occur in arteries that have minimal or moderate blockage.
Scientists have found that immature, softer plaque rich in cholesterol is more unstable and likely to rupture than hard, calcified (hardened by the deposit of calcium salts), dense plaque which extensively narrows the artery channel. However, scientists are still continuing their research to try to understand this better. SO STICK TO THAT BALANCED DIET FOR NOW.
Is there anything that we can do to help prevent heart attacks?
1. Eat a healthy diet, decreases risk by almost 30%
2. Learn to cope with stress, stress and depression triple the risk
3. Exercise, a lack of it can double or triple the risk
4. Stay trim, abdominal obsesity can double the risk too!
I don't do any of the above, I feel so unhealthy now :(
I'm going to write my will now,
SCIENTIFIC Inspector Zhao
Many Thanks to:
-Getty Images
-The National Geographic Magazine
-The Singapore Heart Foundation
-http://www.taylormade.com.au/billspages/conversion_table.html
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