A healthy heart is about the size of a person's what?
What is a fist
100
The key to heart health is eating foods low in what? (3)
What is saturated fat, trans fat, and sodium.
100
Eating many ______ and ______ can help prevent heart disease.
What is fruits and vegetables
100
How many valves regulate blood flow through your heart?
What is four
100
Name a key risk of heart disease
What is high blood pressure, high cholesterol, smoking, obesity, diabetes, family history, sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy diet, and depression.
200
Each minute your heart pumps how many gallons of blood?
What is 1.5 gallons
200
What is one of the three main goals of the cardiac diet?
What is to lower blood cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, and reduce body weight.
200
It is recommended for cardiovascular health that you do ____ minutes a day for five days a week, of moderate-intensity aerobic excersize.
What is 30 minutes
200
The heart and circulatory system make up your __________ system.
What is cardiovascular?
200
For women, age becomes a risk factor for heart disease at what age?
What is 55
300
Your adult heart beats about how many times each day?
What is 100,000
300
Salmon contains what to help lower cholesterol levels?
What is Omega-3 fatty acids
300
Research from the University of Oxford shows that a vegetarian diet reduces the risk of hospitalization or death from heart disease by nearly _____
What is 1/3 or 33%
300
What is the term for the main artery of the body, that transports blood out of the heart to the smaller arteries?
What is the aorta
300
Statistics show that in 2013 one out of every ___ deaths were from heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases.
What is three
400
The heart beat per minute for a non-athlete adult should range from ____ bpm to ____ bmp?
What is 60 to 100 bmp
400
Total cholesterol levels should be less than _____ mg/dl
What is 200
400
High blood pressure is one of the leading causes of heart disease. For a normal blood pressure the top number should be below ___ and the bottom number below ____
What is 120 or below for the top number, and 80 or below for the bottom number.
400
A wall of muscle separating the left and right sides of the heart is called what?
What is a septum
400
Roughly 1 out of ____ deaths from heart disease is directly related to smoking?
What is 5
500
Every day, the heart creates enough energy to drive a truck how many miles?
What is 20 miles
500
The average American consumes 3400 mg a day of sodium. It is recommended to not exceed 2300 mg a day, which is equal to how many teaspoons?
What is one teaspoon.
500
Obesity is a key risk factor for heart disease. Approximately 38% of adults in the United States are considered to be obese. To maintain a healthy waistline the inches around a mans waist should not exceed ____ inches, and the inches around a woman's waist should not exceed ____ inches.
What is 40 and 35
500
The heart has four chambers which are?
What is two atria and two ventricles
500
What is the term used for chest pain or discomfort caused when your heart muscle doesn't get enough oxygen-rich blood?