Captain Hartley

heart beats

two and a half billion times

2,500,000,000

your heart is amazingevery day your heart• beats 100,000 times

• pumps 7,200 litres of blood

• and makes your blood…

x 3600

…travel over 19,000km

that’s the same distance as sailing from Hull to Rio

de Janeiro and back

HULL

RIO DE JANEIRO

coronary arteries

Ahoy there’m heartiesI need your help with my crew. They’ve

gotten into bad habits, are too lazy and slow to find me some treasure

I need a crew with a heart of gold

eat some healthy grub

be a fit pirate

keep away from smoke

eat some healthy grub

less fat

saturated fat is the ‘bad’ fat for

your heart

less salt

how much salt should you be eating a day?

packet of crisps slice of bread bowl of cornflakes

tablespoon of tomato sauce

one cheese slice

half a tin of baked beans

0.5g 0.4g 0.9g

0.1g 0.5g 1.7g

less sugar

more fruit and veg

eat more oily fish

eating oily fish at least twice a week can help keep your heart and

arteries healthy

be a fit pirateYour heart is a muscle

What activities make your heart beat faster?

exercisesails

stairs

decks plankswim rope ladder

rats mast ladder

boat island coconut tree

treasure row ladder

keep away from smoke

are we fit pirates?

is our ship going to sink …

or sail?

be fiteat healthily

don’t smoke

or sail?

treasure your heart