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        • Drop the salt!
        • Good fats, bad fats
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        • Soups and starters
          • Avocado and corn dip with prawns
          • Curried carrot soup
          • Hearty bean and ham soup
          • Meatball soup Milanese
          • Savoury toasties
        • Salads
          • Tuna delight
          • King prawn salad with ginger dressing
          • Thai beef salad
          • Warm roast vegetable salad
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          • Chicken burgers
          • Chicken gumbo
          • Chicken wrap
          • Easy beef hotpot
          • Fast fish medley
          • Lamb and mushroom kebabs
          • Fast vegetable spaghetti
          • Ocean trout (or salmon) fillets on pea mash
          • Vegetable pie
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          • Nectarine and berry salad
          • Apricot nut muffins
          • Fresh fruit salad with mango and passionfruit salsa
          • Roast apples with pistachio nuts
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        • Managing stress
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        • Women's symptoms of heart attack
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      • Diabetes and heart disease
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    • Women and heart disease
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    • Tests, procedures and devices
      • Angiogram
      • Angioplasty
      • Chest x-ray and blood test
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      • Echocardiogram
        • Transoesophageal (TOE)
      • Electrocardiogram (ECG)
      • Electrophysiological study (EPS)
      • Exercise stress test
      • Gated blood pool scan
      • Heart scan
      • Pacemakers
      • Radiofrequency ablation
      • Stents
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      • Coronary artery bypass
      • Heart valve surgery
      • Complications from surgery
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      • Walking program
      • Warm-up and cool-down
    • Heart problems in active people
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    • Garth
    • Sue
    • Angiogram and stent – a personal account
    • Claire
    • Robert
    • Neil
    • Michael
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Healthy living

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GENERAL INFORMATION

  • Ask the doctor
  • A healthy heart in four simple steps
  • Top tips for a fit and healthy 2010
  • How the heart works
  • Risk factors
  • Quiz: Check your heart health IQ

Healthy living

 

 

TOPICS

  • Blood pressure
  • Cholesterol
  • Drop the salt!
  • Healthy eating
  • Exercise
  • Managing your weight
  • Recipes
  • Smoking
  • Stress and your heart
  • Women and heart disease

See also

  • Drop the salt!
  • Living with a heart condition
  • Patients' stories

 

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The website was last updated on 20 July 2010