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This section of the website is designed to provide information and resources to people interested in adopting a more physically active lifestyle and who are looking for guidance and assistance in this area.
BHF and BHFNC resources
BHF Heart Information Line
Physical Activity and your Heart
Get Active
Put your Heart into Walking
So you want to lose weight...for good
Get Kids on the Go
Lets Get Physical - Pocket Play Pack
Be Active Newsletter
Useful resources and publications produced by external agencies
Active Places
Everyday Sport
Help the Aged resources
Making Healthy Food and Lifestyle Changes
BHF Heart Information Line
The BHF Heart Information Line is an information service for the public and health professionals on issues relating to heart health. Visit www.bhf.org.uk/hearthealth/index.asp?SecID=1&secondlevel=1585 for more information or c ontact the line on 08450 70 80 70 (a local rate number).
Physical Activity and Your Heart, British Heart Foundation
This is one of a range of booklets in the BHF's Heart Information Series which explains different conditions affecting the heart and circulation
and is intended for patients, their family and friends to help them understand their illness and be better prepared to control their condition.
The booklet explains why physical activity is important for an individuals heart, even if individuals already have CHD; how physical activity
affects the heart and suggests the type, frequency and level of physical activity individuals should aim to do.
To order a hard copy visit
www.bhf.org.uk/publications/description.asp?secondlevel=423&artID=1025
To download the document in pdf. format, click on
www.bhf.org.uk/publications/uploaded/no_1.pdf
To browse and access other Heart Information Series publications, visit
www.bhf.org.uk/publications/index_home.asp?SecID=18
Get Active, British Heart Foundation
Get Active is a full-colour booklet explaining the benefits of regular exercise and suggesting various suitable activities to help keep the heart strong and healthy. It provides advice on how to get started and where to get more information.
To order a hard copy visit
www.bhf.org.uk/publications/description.asp?secondlevel=419&artID=730
To download the document in pdf. format, click on
www.bhf.org.uk/publications/uploaded/g12getactive.pdf
Put your Heart into Walking, British Heart Foundation
Put your Heart into Walking provides information on how to keep hearts healthy and happy by walking for fitness. It includes details of the health benefits of regular walking, tips for including walking into a daily routine and walking schemes such as the British Heart Foundation and the Countryside Agency's Walking the Way to Health Initiative (WHI).
To order a hard copy visit
www.bhf.org.uk/publications/description.asp?secondlevel=419&artID=740
So you want to lose weight... for good, British Heart Foundation
This booklet is designed for those interested in losing weight for health benefits. Advice is provided on; healthy eating, heart disease, staying motivated, behavioural change and adopting a physically active lifestyle. Meal ideas and recipies are provided, as is a 12 week progress chart for self-monitoring.
To order a copy of 'So you want to lose weight... for good,' either:
Call dataforce on 0870 600 6566 and quote reference number M2
Or Call the BHFNC Information Officers on 01509 22 3259
Get Kids on the Go, British Heart Foundation
Get Kids On The Go is a booklet for parents with ideas and useful information to encourage a whole family approach to health-enhancing physical activity. It is available in English and Welsh.
To download Get Kids On The Go as a pdf, click on
English: www.bhf.org.uk/publications/uploaded/bhf%20kids%20on%20the%20go%20eng.pdf
Welsh: www.bhf.org.uk/publications/uploaded/4751%20kids%20on%20the%20go%20welsh4.pdf
To order a hard copy of Get Kids On The Go, visit
English: www.bhf.org.uk/publications/description.asp?secondlevel=417&artID=6984
Welsh: www.bhf.org.uk/publications/description.asp?secondlevel=417&artID=6985
Let's Get Physical - Pocket play pack, British Heart Foundation
The BHFNC worked with the BHF to produce a Pocket Play Pack for children aged 7-11 years. This colourful and attractive booklet unfolds in a series of zigzag pages providing children with ideas for activities they can do inside or outside, with friends or alone. Included in the Pocket Play Pack is an activity record on which children can keep track of all the activity they do over a six week period. Children who increase their levels of activity over six weeks are invited to write in for a certificate of achievement and congratulations from BHF.
To order the Pocket play pack, visit
www.bhf.org.uk/publications/description.asp?secondlevel=417&artID=2930
Newsletter for Teenagers - Be Active, British Heart Foundation
Be Active
outlines the importance of regular physical activity for keeping fit and healthy and suggests ways to keep active.
To download Be Active as a pdf, click on
www.bhf.org.uk/publications/uploaded/be%20active.pdf
Active Places, Sport England
The Active Places database includes information on a wide range of sports facilities – from sports halls to ski slopes, swimming pools to health and fitness. It includes local authority leisure facilities as well as commercial and club sites.
This Active Places website allows people to search for sports facilities any where in England by a number of different ways. You can browse an interactive map of the country, search for facilities in your local area, use the name and address of a specific facility to find out more information. This is the first stage in an ambitious project - Sport England have collected information on over 50,000 facilities already. Currently, the database holds the locations and details for eleven different facility types, and this information is being constantly checked.
For more information, visit www.activeplaces.com
Everyday Sport, Sport England
Everyday Sport aims to show that getting active can be fun, easy and great for improving health and wellbeing. The campaign is designed to show how people can get active and enjoy massive benefits without disrupting your busy lives.
Everyday Sport can mean different things to different people – from taking the stairs instead of the lift to signing up for an activity class at a local leisure centre or joining a sports club.
Famous faces from the worlds of sport, entertainment and politics are backing the campaign, as well as local authorities, hospitals, GP surgeries, businesses and sports clubs across the country.
For more information, visit www.everydaysport.com or contact 0800 587 6000.
Help the Aged produce a number of different resources for older people and practitioners.
Advice
Help the Aged provides a falls prevention advice leaflet for older people and their carers called Staying Steady. The leaflet is available free of charge via Help the Aged Tel. 020 7278 1114.
Exercise materials
Produced in collaboration with leading postural stability experts, Help the Aged have designed various exercise materials for older people and to be used by falls prevention practitioners. These materials include:
- Strength and balance exercises for healthy ageing (Book)
A programme of strength and balance exercises, ideal for use at home in conjunction with regular falls prevention exercise classes. Led by older people, these chair-based strength and balance exercises can be used at home or in a group in an enjoyable exercise routine.
- Step to the Future (VHS/DVD)
Designed for more active older adults, this programme of aerobic endurance and strength exercises is set to music in a motivating exercise programme.
Research and reports
The preventing falls team has conducted research for falls practitioners looking at numerous issues affecting older people, and reports are available on the website. This includes:
- Minority Ethnic Elders Falls Prevention Report Years 1&2 (2005 & 2006)
- Encouraging positive attitudes to falls prevention in later life plus summary report Don’t mention the f word! (2005)
- Managing the risk and effect of falls among older people in care homes (2004)
- Reducing falls risk among older people: Examples of falls services across England (2003)
Resources are available to download from their website:
www.helptheaged.org.uk/slipstrips/practitioners
or for details of ordering hard copies email falls@helptheaged.org.uk
Making Healthy Food and Lifestyle Choices, the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2006 lifestyle and eating plan has been produced to provide guidelines for healthy adults across all age groups. The guidelines provides healthy lifestyle advice to individuals in the form of a plan, split into six main sections:
- Your lifestyle and eating plan
- Burn up all the calories you eat
- Be physically active
- Eat a variety of nutrient rich foods
- Eat less of the nutrient poor foods
- Avoid use of and exposure to tobacco products
To access the document, click on
www.americanheart.org/downloadable/heart/115040950270250-1541%20LifestylesBro_lowRes.pdf
Links and useful websites
Active Places (Sport England) www.activeplaces.com
BBC Health www.bbc.co.uk/health
British Heart Foundation www.bhf.org.uk
BUPA www.bupa.co.uk
Everyday Sport (Sport England) www.everydaysport.com
Healthy Living, Scotland www.healthyliving.gov.uk
Help the Aged www.helptheaged.org.uk
National Health Service www.nhs.uk
NHS Direct www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk
Patient UK www.patient.co.uk
Walking the Way to Health Initiative www.whi.org.uk
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