33 Ideas to Improve Heart Health & Reduce Blood Pressure

Blood pressure is always a hot topic of discussion in our work so we've come up with a host of simple suggestions on how you can help colleagues improve the health of their heart, as well as step up their general health, wellbeing and performance.

We'll be sharing the advice over the coming weeks, starting today with a few of our recent blog posts which include 28 easy to implement healthy heart lifestyle changes:

5 instant fixes to ensure perfect blood pressure

9 top tips to help manage pressure

Walk or run your way to lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels

Alcohol, blood pressure and successful strategies for healthy drinking

Simple strategies for healthy blood pressure

Six top lifestyle changes for reducing stress in the workplace

If you're looking for ways to raise wellbeing awareness and help colleagues improve their health and energy, here are 5 great ideas you can put into action right away:

1) Set up blood pressure checks  
We can arrange blood pressure checks for staff and also provide everyone with a practical action plan to optimise fitness, diet, sleep and stress management 

2) Arrange a wellness workshop
Workshops are great for education, accountability and action.  We have a range of wellness workshops including, 'the best training I've ever attended'.

3) Organise a wellbeing event
A wellbeing day provides a great opportunity for staff to ask questions and discover key information that makes a huge difference to how they feel and how they perform. 'Feedback has been great and take up was high too'.

4) Read our 29 tips to keep staff healthy in 2014 

5) Sign up for our free Wellness Toolkit 
The Toolkit gives you access to an ongoing range of resources to keep your wellness programme fresh and exciting, and ensure staff are engaged in getting the most out of their health, energy and performance every day.  Read more and sign up for your toolkit here.

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Reduce Your Risk of Heart Attack: Eat Berries

Eating blueberries sand strawberries three times a week could cut your heart attack risk by up to one third.

Scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of East Anglia found that women who ate the most blueberries and strawberries reduced their risk of heart attack by 32% compared with women who ate the berries only once a month or less.

Source: Women's Running Magazine

Image by KitLKat Flickr

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Lower cholesterol by 10% with flaxseed

A three month study by Iowa State University reported a 10% drop in cholesterol levels seen by high cholesterol men eating three tablespoons of flaxseed every day.

That's a great result for the small effort of buying some flaxseeds and sprinkling them on meals and snacks.

Source: www.menrunning.co.uk

Image by AlishaV Flickr

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