Healthy Eating & Lifestyle to Prevent Heart Attacks & Strokes:

Our susceptibility to disease increases as we grow older. Therefore disease prevention and health promotion become a very important part in management of disease process and clinical decision-making in order to improve patient care.  Extension of healthy life through slowing ageing has dramatic affect on all of the diseases and disorders expressed in later life. This may be the reason why some people may live very healthy life for a long period of time or never seem to get sick as compared to others (1)  (2).  

Healthy Eating and Lifestyle Resources by CDC

5 Small Food Swaps To Make You Healthier 

Heart-Healthy Recipes

Easy Meal Plans

Inspiring Articles

Shopping & Cooking

• Secrets to Making Power Salads
• Summer Fruit Guide
• Summer Vegetable Guide
• Smart Shopping to Trim Time in the Kitchen
• 13 Best Grilling Tips
• Guide to Cooking 20 Vegetables
• Basics of Cooking Techniques
• How to Stock Your Pantry
• Fall Vegetable Guide

• Pork Buyer’s Guide
• Chicken Buyer’s Guide
• Spring Vegetable Guide
• Winter Fruits and Vegetables Guide
• Turkey Buyer’s Guide
• Fall Fruit Guide
• Beef Buyer’s Guide
• Healthy Cooking Oils Buyer’s Guide
• Spring Fruit Guide
• Whole Grain Cooking Guide

Nutrition & Lifestyle

• 10 Secrets to Cooking Healthier
• Game Plan for Holidays and Parties
• Tips to Survive Summer BBQ Season
• Basics of Food Safety
• How to Choose the Best Foods for Your Kids at the Store

• 6 Tips for a Healthier Thanksgiving
• 7 Ways to Eat More Vegetables
• Tips for Busy Meal Makers
• 5 Healthy-Eating Resolutions You Can Actually Stick To
• Shopping Tips to Keep Sodium Down
• 5 Small Food Swaps To Make You Healthier

Written Guidelines & Resources to Control Hypertension and Improve Cardiovascular Health

 Hypertension Control: Action Steps for Clinicians  [PDF-313K]  Strategies include creative ways for clinicians to deliver care to hypertensive patients, improve medication adherence, and optimize patient reminders and supports. 
 
Cardiovascular Health: Action Steps for Employers  [PDF-204K] Employers can help their employees improve their cardiovascular health by creating worksites that support blood pressure control, cholesterol management, tobacco control, good nutrition, and physical activity. 

Self-Measured Blood Pressure Monitoring: Action Steps for Public Health Practitioners  [PDF-1M] . This guide outlines action steps that public health practitioners can take to help patients monitor their own blood pressure.

This booklet [PDF-538K] lists every medicine approved to treat high blood pressure along with the side effects, warnings and other information. The booklet is designed to initiate conversations between providers and patients. Other materials also are available for order at USA.gov.

What do your blood pressure readings mean? High blood pressure usually has no symptoms. Is your blood pressure normal? Use this calculator to find out. Keep a record of your readings with My Blood Pressure Wallet Card [PDF-913

Education Module—Hypertension Prevention, Treatment, Control and Sodium Reduction Policy This module provides an overview of hypertension and the impact on population health, the sodium connection, and community- and population-based changes to promote prevention.

Resources for Providers to Reduce Sodium

• Blood Pressure Control Among US Veterans: A Large Multiyear Analysis of Blood Pressure Data From the Veterans Administration Health Data Repository
• Primary Care Letter[PDF - 264KB]
• Application of Lower Sodium Intake Recommendations to Adults—United States, 1999–2006
• MMWR Highlights—Sodium Intake[PDF - 432KB]
• Vital Signs: Prevalence, Treatment, and Control of Hypertension—United States, 1999–2002 and 2005--2008
• Vital Signs: Food Categories Contributing the Most to Sodium Consumption—United States, 2007–2008
• Reducing Sodium in Your Diet to Help Control Your Blood Pressure[PDF - 749KB]
• Sodium: The Facts[PDF - 160KB]
• Sodium: q and a[PDF - 526KB]
• CDC Grand Rounds: Dietary Sodium Reduction—Time for Choice
• Sodium Intake Among Adults—United States, 2005–2006
• Usual Sodium Intakes Compared with Current Dietary Guidelines—United States, 2005–2008
• Your Guide to Lowering your Blood Pressure with DASH[PDF - 978KB]
• The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee: Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure[PDF - 223KB]
• Predictive validity of a medication adherence measure in an outpatient setting

How to Control Your Fat and Cholesterol: A Fotonovela [PDF-3.6M]. Spanish Version: Aprenda a controlar sus niveles de colesterol: Una fotonovela [PDF-4M]

How to Control Your Fat and Cholesterol: A Promotora Guide [PDF-783K]. Spanish Version: Guía de la promotora: Cómo controlar la grasa y el colesterol. Aprenda a controlar su colesterol y consumo de grasas. [PDF-797K] 

Resources Tools

• AHA Tools
• Treatment Protocols for Blood Pressure Control
• Million Hearts® Action Guide Series
• How to Control Your Fat and Cholesterol: Fotonovela and Promotora Guides
• Tips From Former Smokers Ad Campaign 2013
• Blood Pressure Calculator
• Education Module—Hypertension Prevention, Treatment, Control and Sodium Reduction Policy
• A Purchaser's Guide to Clinical Preventive Services: Moving Science into Coverage
• The Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) Online Resource Center
• U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration’s Clinical Quality Measures on Hypertension Control
• U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration's Clinical Performance Measures on the ABCS of Heart Health
• High Blood Pressure—Medicines to Help You, from FDA’s Office on Women's Health
• Interactive Atlas of Heart Disease and Stroke

Resources Videos

• Dr. Frieden Recognizes the 2012 Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Champions
  10/28/2013
• State of Men's Heart Health Webinar
  07/18/2013
• Before You Eat the Church Food
  06/13/2013
• Ellsworth Medical Clinic—2012 Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Champion
  05/20/2013
• Kaiser Permanente Colorado–Denver—2012 Million Hearts® Hypertension Control Champion
  05/20/2013
• Self-measured Blood Pressure Monitoring to Control Hypertension
  05/08/2013
• Keep One Million Hearts Beating Strong
  02/04/2013
• High Blood Pressure Basics
  09/05/2012
• Treating High Blood Pressure
  09/05/2012
• Pharmacists: How You Can Team Up With Patients
  09/05/2012
• Vital Signs: Getting Blood Pressure Under Control
  09/05/2012
• José's Million Hearts® Story 
  05/22/2012
• La historia de José y Million Hearts® 
  05/22/2012
• Million Hearts®: Scaling and Spreading Innovation
  04/19/2012
• Andrea's Million Hearts® Story
  03/08/2012
• Know Your Risk Factors
  03/08/2012
• Aaron's Million Hearts® Story
  02/29/2012
• Public Health Grand Rounds Highlighting Million Hearts®
  02/21/2012
• Gail's Million Hearts® Story
  12/13/2011
• Be One in a Million Hearts®: Share Your Story
  12/13/2011
• One on One with Janet Wright: Heart Health
  09/30/2011
• Million Hearts® Initiative Launch
  09/13/2011
• Million Hearts®: Preventing Heart Attacks and Strokes
  09/08/2011