This year's theme is 'Workplace Wellness' and its aim is to promote the workplace as the ideal setting to adopt healthy behaviors to prevent heart disease and stroke. To ensure sustained change, the World Heart Federation is targeting the workplace to promote healthy heart messages.
The Workplace Wellness imitative aims to use the workplace to promote long-term behavioral changes that will benefit employers, employees and communicates.
World Heart Day calls on individuals to take their first of 10 steps to Heart Health:
1. Healthy food intake
2. Get active and take heart
3. Say no to tobacco
4. Maintain a healthy weight
5. Know your numbers
6. Limit your alcohol intake
7. Insist on a smoke- free environment
8. Bring exercise to the workplace
9. Choose healthy food option
10.Encourage stress- free moments
Compiled from www.world-heart-federation.org
