Posted by Sarah on December 09, 2003 at 01:53:58:
In Reply to: Learning From Dave Funderburg posted by Anne Rowthorn on December 08, 2003 at 17:44:29:
The enlargement of the heart is usually from being overworked. I read this bit of trivia, from a health magazine: quote...."Give a tennis ball a good hard squeeze. You're using about the same amount of force your heart uses to pump blood out to the body. Even at rest, the muscles of the heart work hard----twice as hard as the leg muscles of a person sprinting."
The longer it does this, the bigger it will get...some slower that others, but it doesn't get any smaller.