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    heart & health
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  • When you are resting, your heart should beat 50-80 times per minute. True or false?
    false - 70-100 times per minute
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  • Which day of the week do more people have heart attacks and why?
    Monday - Monday mornings are very stressful for people who need to return to work after the weekend
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  • Which blood cells live longer: red or white?
    red - up to 120 days while the white ones live for a few days up to a few weeks
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  • Your blood makes a round trip through your body 1,000 times every day. True or false?
    1
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  • What do you call a doctor who is trained in finding, treating and preventing diseases of the heart and blood vessels?
    a cardiologist
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  • Male hearts are bigger than female ones. True or false?
    true - the size of the heart depends on the size of the body and men are usually bigger than women
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  • What is the name of the protein containing iron that gives blood its red colour?
    haemoglobin
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  • The old saying goes "Laughter is the best medicine". Why does laughing a lot help our heart?
    When we laugh our heart beats faster so the blood flow in our body increases (up to 20%)
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  • The heart is the first functional organ to develop and starts to beat and pump blood at about three weeks into the development of a pregnancy. True or false?
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  • Your heart is the size of your fist. True or false?
    1
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  • Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart are called veins and those that carry blood back to the heart are called arteries. True or false?
    false - it's the other way round
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