Heart Healthy Living
CardioCare is dedicated to preventive heart health and overall healthy living. We are providing links for recipes and exercise tips to keep you heart healthy.
Stay Young at Heart: Cooking the Heart-Healthy Way
Heart-healthy recipes from the National Institutes of Health
Keep the Beat: Heart-Healthy Recipes
This recipe collection was developed by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to help Americans keep their heartbeat strong. It includes dishes from a variety of ethnic cuisines to suit virtually every taste.
Heart-Healthy Home Cooking African American Style – With Every Heartbeat is Life
This recipe book brings together many African-American favorite recipes, prepared in a heart-healthy way that is lower in saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium. This is important because heart disease and stroke are the first and the third leading cause of death for African Americans.
Fruit and Veggies Matter
CDC’s site provides easy ways and recipe ideas to add more fruits and vegetables into your daily eating patterns.
Mediterranean Diet
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency to help reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
Recent studies show that blood pressure can be lowered by following the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) eating plan – and by eating less salt, also called sodium. This booklet, based on the DASH research findings, tells how to follow the DASH eating plan and reduce the amount of sodium you consume.
South Beach Diet Plan for Beginners
The South Beach Diet was created by Dr. Arthur Agatston, a highly respected cardiologist, to work with your body safely and effectively. What makes the South Beach Diet different is that it teaches a way of life where you rely on the right carbohydrates and fats. This new way of eating allows you to live contentedly.
Choose to Move
Choose To Move is a 12-week program for women who want to make a change in their lifestyle. As part of the Go Red for Women movement, Choose To Move, gives women the power to build physical activity into their life and reduce their risk for heart disease – their number one killer.
Exercise and Physical Activity: Getting Fit for Life
National Institute on Aging provides recommendations for exercise and physical activity for older adults. Site also provides additional resources for fitness in the elderly.
Exercises To Try
NIH SeniorHealth provides strength, balance, stretching, and endurance exercises for older adults.
Physical Activity for Everyone
There is no need to think of strenuous exercise or boring workouts. Instead, imagine doing fun physical activities you enjoy and watch the health benefits follow!
Physical Activity in Your Daily Life
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency to help reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
State Physical Activity Directory
State-Based Physical Activity Program Directory of the CDC.
State-Based Physical Activity Program Directory
The State-Based Physical Activity Program Directory site of the CDC Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity provides information about physical activity programs involving state departments of health. Use this site to research programs, gather ideas, and share information.