Show Help Y Your our Heart Fund t Help Your Heart Your heart presuming it is an aa average health healthy adult heart weighs less than a pound pound- and Is la hardly broader or longer than the palm of your hand But It is ts the toughest and strongest muscle In your body It Is constructed to do a monumental job Job to to work ceaselessly ly for an entire lifetime pumping sustaining life blood to the tissues of your body at varying speeds and pressures according to your activities vi ties Each day It pushes between five lve and ten tons tone of of blood through your blood vessels depending upon your size Each hour It puts forth enough energy to raise a pound ISO man from th the street to the roof of a three story building And in a Biblical lifetime Its total output of ot energy energy en en- ergy would be sufficient to raise a battleship battleship bat bat- some 14 feet above the surface of the water It has haa in built-in reserves to enable It to withstand unanticipated strains and In most Instances it t Is capable of of doing more than your body pody ever will call upon It to do But here is an Ironic truth Despite tho the strength and endurance of this fabulous power-house power which which nature has built Into each of us us the heart and its circulatory system account for more than half of all deaths in the United States each In 1954 latest year for which we have complete figures cardiovascular cardiovascular cardiovascular cardi cardi- diseases claimed nearly lives or per per cent of ot the nations nation's total Some of ot these these fatalities were among persons less than 65 years of ot age age cold cold proof that the h heart art di diseases diseases diseases di- di are far from being exclusively ely a problem of advanced age This Is a fact that is further emphasized by figures figures figures fig fig- ures on prevalence of or the heart diseases One in in every 16 persons In the United States today suffers from one or another form of heart of blood vessel ailment aliment This means in round figures that some Americans now suffer from some form of heart or blood vessel disease r u |