Heart disease is this nation's greatest killer - for each three-minute track played on Valentine's Day, apparently an individual will have a cardiac arrest.

Britain's yearly death rate from ticker conditions is over 110,000.

We are one of the worst in Europe - British people are twice as probable as the Italians or the French to collapse, states the Sun newspaper.

There's evidence that Latin love-birds desire for sex and passion help them to keep in good health. Ladies in happy wedlock have a less likely possibility of having a heart attack than those in high - stress unions, information sourced at the University of Pittsburg in the States has discovered.

What's more, men who make love two or more times a week substantially decrease their chances of a cardiac arrest by 50 per cent, a survey at Bristol University found out.

So get smooching ladies!