Understanding your heart - 2010

This dynamic program includes 9 meetings and lectures on different topics on the health of your heart that take place once a month in the Sheba Medical Center. This series of lectures is essentially a primary and secondary prevention program for heart disease.

Relating to all matters concerning heart disease - the objective is to get individuals to listen, to question, to understand, to know, to change, calm down and to be proactive.

SHAHAL (http://www.shl-telemedicine.com/) sponsors the program and the lectures and meetings are free-of-charge.

The following is a list of topics for lectures:

• Risk factors in the prevention of atherosclerosis

• Diet and coronary artery disease

• Signs of angina and heart attack

• Basic resuscitation for the patient and his family

• The harms of smoking and methods to quit

• Sexual rehabilitation following a heart attack

• Physical education and its affect on risk factors

• Biofeedback in daily living

• How to stop smoking

• Ways to cope after a heart attack.

• The program was compiled and organized by Sara Ben Zvi M.Ed.