Eliminating Alcohol
Eliminating Alcohol
Alcohol is toxic to the heart. It is recommended that all patients with heart failure completely abstain from ...
Managing Your Health
Managing Your Health
Managing your condition and symptoms through medication, healthy eating, and taking care of your physical and mental health can help you live well with heart failure.
Physical and mental health
Living well means taking care of both your physical well-being as well as your mental health. Keeping healthy both physically and mentally is key to living well with heart failure.
Diet
Canada's Food Guide
Canada's Food Guide is an eating plan created by Health Canada to help people in Canada make healthy food choices. ...
Isabel’s Tips for Medication and Symptoms Self-Management
Isabel's Tips for Medication and Symptoms Self-Management
Isabel lived with heart failure for 11 years before having a heart transplant
Fluid Restriction
Fluid Restriction
Fluid Accumulation
Normally, our bodies eliminate extra fluid by excreting it as urine. People with heart failure ...
Potassium
Potassium Intake
Potassium is a mineral that has many important roles within your body, including regulating your heartbeat and blood ...
Sodium
Sodium Restriction
Sodium causes extra fluid to build up in your body, making your heart work harder. This extra fluid can also ...