Help us end the Christmas heartache.

Thousands of Australian families will be without their loved ones this year.

Terry White Chemists are proud supporters of The Heart Foundation and the great work they do every year!

As a gift this Christmas, look beyond your happy family and beautiful Christmas Tree, donate to those who may be without.

You may just be the star on someones tree!

Andy Harrison born the 4th of March 1969.
Died from a heart attack, 16th of April 2009.

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When you purchase The Tony Ferguson Cook Book during the month of May, we will donate $1 from the purchase price to a leading heart research charity.

Not only will you be investing in your own heart health today with our new cookbook, you’ll be investing in research to help many thousands of Australians tomorrow.

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Source: Heart Foundation

Your heart needs care for life. A healthy heart is about enjoying a healthy lifestyle and making this a part of your everyday life. It is also about taking positive steps to reduce risk factors.

Everyone can do something to help prevent heart disease, including people who already have heart disease or who have had a heart event. The good news is that if you lead a healthy lifestyle, as outlined below, you can reduce your risk of developing heart disease.

The best ways to reduce the risk of developing heart disease, and to help prevent it getting worse if it already exists is to reduce or remove the risk factors over which we have some control.

To do this, have ongoing heart disease risk assessments with your doctor and lead a healthy lifestyle as outlined below. Being male, increasing age and having a family history of early death from heart disease are also risk factors for developing heart disease, but are much more difficult to control or change!

1. Be smokefree

Smoking reduces the amount of oxygen in your blood and damages the artery walls. Stopping smoking is the single most important thing you can do to reduce your risk of coronary heart disease. For more information on quitting smoking, call the Quitline on 131 848.

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