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Gardening, golfing lowers risk of irregular heartbeats. Find out how.

Your stroke risk increases if your partner smokes. Learn more.

Heart&Stroke Health CheckHealth Check™ is one of the ways the Foundation is helping Canadians eat well. Read all about it.

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Brian Campkin Hi! I’m Brian Campkin. I had bypass surgery that saved my life. Here’s my eighth column about dealing with the emotional side of surviving heart disease. Here’s how I dealt with a bout of depression, which is a normal party of recovery.


 

Alyssa Rolnick30 tips to eating smarter everywhere webcast
Whether you're cooking at home or eating out, you can make heart-healthy choices to help lower your risk of heart disease and stroke. The webcast took place on March 19 and is now archived. Please click here to listen to it at your convenience.  

Girl in supermarketCanadians need information on toxic or carcinogenic substances in the products they use, the food they eat and the air they breathe. The Heart and Stroke Foundation, the Canadian Cancer Society and the Canadian Lung Association are answering this call by uniting in a new campaign to help protect Canadians against these environmental health risks. Read more.

 

August - focus onsummer nutrition

Give the slip to sticky cholesterol
Looking for ways to keep your cholesterol levels down as the summer heats up? Try these 12 tips by one of the Foundation’s cholesterol experts.

Hey kids! Test your food IQ!
How much does your son or daughter know about healthy eating? This summer, try this quiz with your kids to see how many food questions they can get right.

What's a healthy waist size?
Learn how to measure your waist properly by watching a video in our Healthy Waists section.

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