Lungs

The lungs have a very important part to play in the respiratory system. There are two lungs in your body the right lung is in the right side of the heart and left is in the left side of your heart. So they surround the two opposite sides of the heart. The lungs main job is to put the oxygen into the blood. Once the air goes through the mouth or nose, it travels through the pharynx (another name for throat), nasopharynx and the trachea (wind pipe), and the air also goes through the bronchi and bronchioles (small tubes) until it finally reaches the alveoli where the air is exchanged of carbon dioxide and oxygen. Now let’s talk about some number facts about the lungs. About 90% of the lungs are made up of air and only 10% is made up of hard tissue. A male’s average of how much one of the lungs weight is 1060 grams and female’s average of how much the lung weight is 930 grams. Some more amazing facts about the lungs are at least one liter of air stays in your lungs no matter how hard you breathe out. Each lung is about 10-12 inches long. In an average persons life a person takes about half a billion breathes. If all the different sized tubes in the lungs were connected and stretched out they would go more than 50 kilometers! In both lungs of an adult there are about 300 million alveoli! Do you smoke? Smoking is very addictive and smoking is very harmful to your lungs and some other parts of your body. Do you want to keep your lungs healthy or are you already keeping your lungs healthy? Well if you want to the simplest way to keep your lungs healthy is just to exercise often. Just keep on exercising at least 2-3 times a week and you will have a long!