Know Your Numbers

Averil mentioned last night about how everyone should 'know their numbers'

Check out the following links
Go Red for Women Campaign

Heart Risk Quiz and Healthy Living ideas

National Heart Foundation Recipe Archive

The Heart Foundations Nine steps to eating for a healthy heart:
1) Enjoy three meals a day, selecting from dishes that encourage you to eat plant foods and fish, with little or no dairy fat, meat fat or deep fried foods

2) Choose fruits and/or vegetables at every meal and most snacks.

3) Select whole grains, whole grain breads, or high fibre breakfast cereals in place of white bread and low fibre varieties at most meals and snacks

4) Include fish, or dried peas, beans and soy products, or a small serving of lean meat or skinned poultry, at one or two meals each day

5) Choose low fat milk, low fat milk products, soy or legume products every day

6) Use small amounts of oil, margarine, nuts or seeds

7) Drink plenty of fluids each day, particularly water, and limit sugar-sweetened drinks and alcohol

8) Use only small amounts of total fats and oils, sugar and salt when cooking and preparing meals, snacks, or drinks. Choose ready-prepared foods low in these ingredients

9) Mostly avoid or rarely include butter, deep-fried and fatty foods, and only occasionally choose sweet bakery products

Links to the National Heart Foundation's policies on nutrition