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  ABC book on the Human Heart

Author: Blanchy Salazar

Illustrated by: Blanchy salazar and Ms. Luis 2014-

2015 Kindergarten class.

If you are a kid your heart is about the 

same size as your fist.If you are an adult it 

is about the size of two fists. 

The average heart weighs between 7 and 

15 ounces (about what an apple weighs)

Your heartbeat changes and copies the 

music you listen to 

Every day, your heart creates enough 

energy to drive a truck for 20 miles

A kitchen faucet would need to be turned 

on for at least 45 years to equal the same 

amount of blood pumped by the heart in 

an average lifetime.

During fetal development, the heart 

starts as a tube. It grows, bends 

and folds, and by the tenth week of 

pregnancy the heart has formed.

Your blood is pumped all around your 

body and gets back to your heart in about 

a minute.

When you're exercising, it takes your 

blood about ten seconds to get from your 

heart to your big toe and back.

Egyptians believed that the heart would 

move around inside the body

lack of sleep can cause irregular jumping 

heartbeats called premature ventricular 

contractions

An electrocardiograph is used to keep 

track of the heart's rhythm and rate. 

A good laugh   can cause the lining of 

blood vessel walls to relax

Most heart attacks occur between the 

hours of 8 and 9 AM with Monday being the 

most "popular" 

The heart responds to many heart and 

circulatory conditions by enlarging up to 4 

times its normal size

people who are overweight . . . the heart 

looks yellow because it is covered with 

yellow fat

We've always known pollution is bad for 

your lungs. Now scientists are finding that 

it's also toxic for your heart, even at low 

levels

Your heart pumps nearly five quarts 

of blood through your body every 60 

seconds.

The left side of the heart receives 

oxygenated blood from the lungs and  

pumps it to the rest of the body

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