Love your heart

September 29th is World Heart Day, which aims to raise awareness about heart disease and stroke as the world’s leading causes of death. It’s the perfect time to consider your risk factors and the key prevention steps you can take to maintain a healthy heart. This year, the World Heart Federation outlines four main risk factors that influence poor heart health, all of which can be controlled with improved lifestyle habits. They are: unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, smoking and harmful use of alcohol. 
 
Is there opportunity in your life to improve your heart health by making healthier choices? Learn more about improving your heart health in our resources below.

Featured Resources

  1. Blog Post: Does salt really affect blood pressure?
  2. Blog Post: Exercise for people with heart disease: Can health education help change behaviours?
  3. Blog Post: Fish-oil supplements: another weapon against high blood pressure
  4. Blog Post: Lifestyle counselling programs can help people make healthy choices and beneficial change
  5. Blog Post: Five diet changes supported by research evidence
  6. Blog Post: News 'flash' for women: the latest findings on hormone therapy for menopause & heart disease
  7. Web Resource Rating: Coronary artery disease risk screening
  8. Web Resource Rating: WHO report says eating process meat is carcinogenic: Understanding the findings
  9. Evidence Summary: Dietary fibre for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
  10. Evidence Summary: Flu vaccine reduces cardiovascular events
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