Habits of the Heart | Heart

Amazing Heart Facts

• Your heart is about the same size as your fist.

• An average adult body contains about five quarts of blood.

• All the blood vessels in the body joined end to end would stretch 62,000 miles or two and a half times around the earth.

• The heart circulates the body's blood supply about 1,000 times each day.

• The heart pumps the equivalent of 5,000 to 6,000 quarts of blood each day.