Lorene Furmage's List: Heart Health

Explore the heart's development and structure. Follow the blood through the blood vessels. Wander through the weblike body systems. Learn how to have a healthy heart and how to monitor your heart's health. Look back at the history of heart science.

National program to encourage heart health and physical activity. By registering, you can fundraise for the Heart Foundation.

Information on stroke warning signs, children and heart disease, healthy lifestyle and glossary.

Find out how the heart pumps blood to the lungs to pick up oxygen, and then through arteries to the rest of the body. Learn what is meant by 'blood pressure' and 'pulse rate'. Listen to a heartbeat and learn how to count your own pulse rate. Test your knowledge by labelling a diagram of the circulatory system.

In this unit students will examine the 5 food groups and complete a food a diary. They will then look at the influence that food choices have on their own health and decide how to improve their own and other's food choices.

The story of the pursuit of a practical artificial heart. Includes: Map of the Human Heart: how the human heart works; Amazing Heart Facts; Artificial Human; Pioneering Surgeon: O.H. Frazier; Operation: Heart Transplant: try your hand as a heart-transplant surgeon in this simplified online procedure.

NIH animation of the circulation system. Well-labeled, pronounciation guides and explanations of the blood, lungs and heart.

Fact sheets on the heart, heart conditions and circulation problems. You can also listen to the fact sheets being read.

Online activities to look at the heart

National Heart Foundation of Australia carries out life-saving work in research, prevention and education to reduce the loss and suffering caused by cardiovascular disease (heart, stroke and blood vessel disease). Includes information on how the heart works, maintaining a healthy heart, statistics and Heart Foundation initiatives - Eat Smart for Heart

This is a colour clip showing fruit, vegetables and fish in a market with a scientist talking about the beneficial effects of fish oil for reducing potential heart attacks. The clip also shows a close-up of images of isolated beating heart muscle cells taken with a microscope camera, and a graph of the cells beating over time.

Look at health problems caused by high blood pressure. Find out how high blood pressure can be prevented or treated. Learn that doctors measure people's blood pressure while the heart is pumping blood and also at rest. Test your knowledge by answering multiple-choice questions.