WHAT YOUR HEART IS DOING FOR YOU ALL DAY
Jan 02, 2022
4 minutes
BY DANA G. SMITH
ILLUSTRATION BY
CHLOE KRAMMEL
WHAT YOUR HEART IS DOING WHEN: YOU SIT DOWN (TO WORK... AND WORK... AND WORK)
hen you’re sitting at your desk writing an email, scrolling through football stats or catching up on , your heart is on something like cruise control. It’s beating roughly 60-100 times a minute – less often if you’re fit, more if you’re not. The better shape you’re in, the larger your heart is, especially the right and left ventricles. These are the chambers that blood goes through before it’s shuttled to your lungs (right) or the rest of your body (left), to get oxygen and nutrients where they need to go. A more powerful
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