Our Amazing Human Body: Our Heart

Everyday, we have to live an awesome life, full of emotions and experiences, that together makes our own life history. Most of those feelings came directly from our dear brain. However, since old times, people has thought that all the feelings came, and are saved inside our heart, and from that viewpoint, the heart is a very interesting organ.

The Heart

If we talk in serious words, the heart fulfils much more functions than be a little box where all a our feelings are saved and secured.First of all, as many people know, the heart is a little muscular organ, that is located behind the chest, with no more than 300 grams of weight and 12 centimetres in length. 

The main function of our heart is keep our blood circulating around our body, so in general, it works as a little engine. Inside blood, there are many different cells, that make our body be a "normal body", for example, red blood cells transport the oxygen every cell needs to fulfil its own function; white blood cells, protect our body from bad cells that could eventually take us to death. So as you can see, as a summary, our heart is like the central engine that make this giant company called Human Body, work with all its systems in a organised way.

Another important function, has a direct relation with the maintenance of the blood by transporting it right to the kidneys, where all the blood flow is cleaned.

This marvellous organ, may be affected by the malfunction of other areas from the body, for example, when people do not eat healthy food, the blood vessels are not able to transport blood with a normal flow, so that heart have to work harder to complete its whole function. 

What can you do to avoid problems with your heart? well, first of all you have to eat healthy food, and of course change bad habits at the time you are eating, for example avoid watching TV, because you do not realise how much food are you eating. Moreover, you may include some sport  around your own life, for example going to work on foot, or riding a bike.

So, to take care of your Heart, you just have to change bad habits and be proactive. On that way, you will be a healthier person, and will have a really good quality of life.