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When Lisa started feeling pressure near her collarbone, she assumed it was a muscle spasm caused by her massage that day.

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As a fit young medical professional, Kateshe Clark couldn’t believe it when she had a heart attack after a workout in November last year.

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It may be hard to believe, but Kelly Widdowson was just 26 years old when she had her heart attack.

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What if we could predict who is vulnerable to heart disease before their symptoms start? That’s the focus of a long-term study in Canterbury, involving 3400 heart-healthy volunteers.

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For decades, the goal of taking 10,000 steps a day has been widely promoted as a simple way to boost heart health and overall wellbeing. But is this still the magic number or are 7,000 steps enough? Find out what the latest research recommends.

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Professor Sir Jim Mann has been welcomed as a Life Member of the Heart Foundation.

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Heart troubles were the last thing young and healthy Kerrie expected, but at 12 weeks pregnant with her second child, she experienced a spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD).

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Does eating while driving, working or scrolling on your phone sound familiar? We’ve all been there. But did you know how important it is to fully participate in the experience of eating? In this article, we cover what intuitive eating is and ways to help you change your mindset around…

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Remember the old food pyramid?  In its time it was fairly iconic as a basis for understanding healthy eating.  Many of us learned about it in school, came across it at doctors’ surgeries, or just saw it in articles on healthy eating.

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Two years ago, Deb Leslie suffered a horrific heart attack which left her strewn across the table in a busy Wellington food court.

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This is my story… Our son was born in June 2010 - a very healthy 10.3lb! Less than 2 weeks later, in the early hours of the morning, I suffered sudden deep pain in the centre of my chest, so painful I knew something was drastically wrong.

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For Natalie, a young wife, mother and nurse, a cardiac event happened on what seemed like an ordinary evening. But her nursing background immediately sounded internal alarms and she knew she was experiencing something out of the ordinary.

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