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Our resources include: • Eating Well (Code: G186) • Cut down on salt (Code: G160) • Cut the saturated fat wallchart (Code: M4) • Guide to food labelling (Code: G54) Want to know how a healthy balanced diet can help protect your heart? Eating well is not only good for your waistline, but good for your heart too. Making healthy choices can help you reduce your risk of developing coronary heart disease and help you maintain a healthy weight. You know exercise is good for you... but how can you do it more regularly? If you are inactive, you are more likely to have a heart attack than someone who is active. Exercising doesn’t have to mean long gym sessions or strenuous work- out regimes. Walking, gardening and even walking up stairs are effective too. Did you know that the British Heart Foundation (BHF) provides a wide range of free resources to help you look after your heart? How can we help? Visit our website for a wealth of information – bhf.org.uk/hearthealth Browse, order or download the resources on our website – bhf.org.uk/publications Order resources from our orderline on 0870 600 6566 or email [email protected] Call our Heart Helpline for heart health information on 0300 330 3311 If you only order or download one resource make it Our heart health catalogue (Code: G5) it includes all our resources for adults Our resources include: • Get active, stay active (Code: G12) • Physical activity and your heart (Code: HIS1) We can help you look after your heart

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Page 1: We can help you look Did you know that the How can we help ... · We have resources to help you understand your diagnosis and how to manage your condition. Want to know what to expect

Our resources include:• Eating Well (Code: G186)• Cut down on salt (Code: G160)• Cut the saturated fat wallchart (Code: M4)• Guide to food labelling (Code: G54)

Want to know how a healthy balanced diet can help protect your heart?Eating well is not only good for your waistline, but good for your heart too. Making healthy choices can help you reduce your risk of developing coronary heart disease and help you maintain a healthy weight.

You know exercise is good for you... but how can you do it more regularly?If you are inactive, you are more likely to have a heart attack than someone who is active. Exercising doesn’t have to mean long gym sessions or strenuous work-out regimes. Walking, gardening and even walking up stairs are effective too.

Did you know that the British Heart Foundation (BHF) provides a wide range of free resources to help you look after your heart?

How can we help?Visit our website for a wealth of information – bhf.org.uk/hearthealth

Browse, order or download the resources on our website – bhf.org.uk/publications

Order resources from our orderline on 0870 600 6566 or email [email protected]

Call our Heart Helpline for heart health information on 0300 330 3311

If you only order or download one resource make it Our heart health catalogue (Code: G5) – it includes all our resources for adults

Our resources include:• Get active, stay active (Code: G12) • Physical activity and your heart (Code: HIS1)

We can help you look after your heart

Page 2: We can help you look Did you know that the How can we help ... · We have resources to help you understand your diagnosis and how to manage your condition. Want to know what to expect

Worried about your own or a loved one’s heart problem?We have resources to help you understand your diagnosis and how to manage your condition.

Want to know what to expect from your heart surgery or treatment?Heart treatments can sometimes be complex and tricky to understand. To make things easier, order our resources for all the details.

We are the nation’s heart charity, dedicated to

saving lives through pioneering research, patient care, campaigning for change and by providing

vital information. But we urgently need your help. We rely on your donations of time

and money to continue our life-saving work. Because together

we can beat heart disease.

British Heart FoundationGreater London House 180 Hampstead Road London NW1 7AWT 020 7554 0000 F 020 7554 0100

bhf.org.uk/ publications

Information & support on anything heart-related Phone lines open 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday Similar cost to 01 or 02 numbers

Heart Helpline 0300 330 3311 bhf.org.uk

Feeling stressed? Trying to quit smoking?Need help?The way you deal with stress can encourage unhealthy behaviour – such as smoking or drinking too much alcohol – which could put your health at risk.

Smokers are almost twice as likely to have a heart attack as people who have never smoked.

Our resources include:• Having heart surgery (Code: HIS12)• Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) –

A guide for patients. (Code: DVD2)• Pacemakers (Code: HIS15) • Medicines for your heart (Code: HIS17)

Our resources include:• Coping with stress (Code: G187)• Stop smoking (Code: G118)

Our resources include:• Blood pressure (Code: HIS4)• Angina (Code: HIS6)• Reducing your blood cholesterol (Code: HIS3)• Heart attack (Code: HIS7)

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