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OUR HEART THAT NEVER TIRES

For us, our heart is an essential organ.
It beats about seventy-two times per minute
and about forty million times per year. To

understand what a tiring activity this is, just
make a fist with your hand and then relax it, and
continue making a fist and relaxing it. How many
minutes do you think you will be able to keep this up?
Your heart, which is about the size of your fist,
continues this action throughout your life without
becoming tired or even stopping once. Our hearts
don’t stop even while we are asleep. If we become
excited, our heart beats faster, and it beats slower

while we rest. Our heart makes all these adjustments
automatically while we are totally unaware.
Every time our heart beats, it pumps blood around
our bodies. What we need to survive is in this blood.
Every one of our cells receives the necessary oxygen
and food they need from the blood. Our heart pumps
about 43,000 litres (approx. 11,000 gallons) of blood

per day. Do you know just how much blood this
means? This is about enough to fill 150 bathtubs.
Wouldn’t you become tired if you tried to
empty a single bathtub full of
water with just a cup? Now
imagine having to empty
150 bathtubs of water
with just a single cup.
Probably you wouldn’t

have been able to
accomplish such a
difficult task.
However, our heart
does such a task

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