Your Heart Health

It’s never too late to start loving your heart!

Your Heart Health

If you stopped to think about your heart, how it works and what it does every second, every minute, every hour, every day, to keep you going, you’d realise just how amazing it is. If you’ve never stopped to think about your heart, why not do it now? Once you know how incredible your heart is, you’ll find it almost impossible to take it for granted.

Your heart moves over 7,500 litres of blood – that’s more than three super tankers - and pumps 100,000 times every day, 35 million times a year and over 2.5 billion times in an average lifetime
Your system of blood vessels – arteries veins and capillaries is over 96,000 kilometres long (long enough to go round the world more than twice), yet it takes just 20 seconds to pump blood throughout the entire vascular system
In one day your blood travels 19,000km, that’s over eight times the distance between Auckland and Sydney
Even at rest your heart works twice as hard as the leg muscles of a sprinting man
Your heart is only as big as a clenched fist and weighs less than 300g
The Aorta – your main artery is almost as thick as a garden hose.
Your capillaries are so small that it takes ten of them to equal the thickness of a human hair.

Your heart is at the centre of everything you are and when it’s working well, it pumps blood through the body, delivering oxygen and essential nutrients Flora is committed to helping you keep this precious organ in good condition.

Unfortunately, heart problems account of the largest number of deaths in Australia and New Zealand each year. The good news is that for both men and women, you can control many of the factors that impact heart health. Simply making small changes to your diet and lifestyle can improve the health of your heart and the quality of your life.

With a background in heart health and over 40 years experience of developing margarine spread products, we’re dedicated to bringing you all the latest expert information to help you look after your heart. At Flora, we’re committed to making the world’s hearts healthier and what better place to start than here.

It’s never too late to love your heart!

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