Heart health information and resources:

Materials

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • High Blood Pressure Symptoms and Causes
  • How to Measure Your Blood Pressure
• American Heart Association
  • Learn Your Risk Factors
  • What Changes You Can Make
  • What to Ask Your Doctor
  • Home Blood Pressure Monitoring 
  • Blood Pressure Monitoring Log
  • Fact Sheets

Infographics

Blood Pressure Categories

Videos

American Heart Association Education Session: Empowered to Know Your Numbers

American Heart Association: How to Monitor Your Blood Pressure at Home

American Heart Association: What is the Difference Between Hypertension and High Blood Pressure?

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: High Blood Pressure Basics

Get Active

• Scripps Health - 7 Tips to Get You Moving
• Mayo Clinic - Exercise: A Drug-Free Approach to Lowering High Blood Pressure
• American Heart Association - Choose Your Own Workout
• ACE Fitness – Workout Ideas 

Reduce Stress

• YMCA of San Diego - Adult Learning, Socials, and Be Well Webinars
• Manage Stress with tips from the National Alliance on Mental Illness and American Heart Association
• Homewatch Caregivers – Protect Your Heart and Your Brain with These 5 Easy Lifestyle Tips
• County of San Diego
  • 30-Day Mental Wellness Practice
  • Check Your Mood Resources
• It's Up to Us - Tips and resources to support behavioral health and wellbeing

Infographics

Fight Stress with Healthy Habits
English and Spanish versions of a flyer demonstrating how to fight stress with healthy habits.

Videos

OG Yoga: Restorative Yoga with Mindy Tran

County Parks: Choose Your Own Adventure - San Dieguito County Park and King Snake Creature Feature

American Heart Association: Move More Together at Home Playlist

Materials

• NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
  • Learn about the DASH Diet
  • Tips to Reduce Salt and Sodium
• American Heart Association
  • How to Reduce Sodium and Eat Smart
• USDA MyPlate
  • Why eating lean or low-fat proteins, fruits, and vegetables are important for heart health
  • Learn how to eat healthy on a budget
• National Kidney Foundation
  • How Salt Affects the Kidneys and Top 10 Tips for Reducing Salt in Your Diet
• Cleveland Clinic
  • What Is Sodium and How Does It Affect Your Body
• CalFresh
  • Tasty Recipes on Your Budget

Infographics

The Salty Six
Did you know? These six popular foods can add high levels of sodium to your diet.

Videos

The Cooking Doc: The Top 5 Tips to Lower the Salt in Your Diet

Mayo Clinic: Flavorful Ways to Reduce Salt in Your Diet

Eating Well: How to Lower Sodium in Your Diet

Materials

Smoking

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Smoking and Heart Disease and Stroke
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  • Quit Smoking
  • How smoking harms nearly every organ in the body, including your heart.
• American Heart Association - Smoking, High Blood Pressure and Your Health
• Kick It California
  • Quit Vids Video Series 

Alcohol

• American College of Cardiology - Moderate alcohol consumption linked with high blood pressure

Infographics

Life's Simple 7: How to Quit Tobacco