Happy Heart

The Happy Heart campaign is a countywide effort to promote heart health. Eating more fresh foods high in fiber, protein, calcium, potassium, and magnesium and lower in salt, sugar, and unhealthy fats can help prevent high blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. Most of the excess salt in our diets comes from packaged, processed, store-bought, and restaurant foods.

Celebrate a Happy Heart and take action with these resources:

Find helpful information in these Alameda County Resource Guides  (link)

Attend a free hypertension class

Sutter Health - No Pressure! The Basics of Managing Your Blood Pressure At Home class (link) 

Try low-sodium, heart healthy recipes from diverse cultures and ethnicities

Eat Fresh.org Low-Sodium Recipes

NIH-National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Recipes

• Healthy Eating Recipe Website
• Downloadable Cookbooks:
  • Keep the Beat Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Dinners
  • Keep the Beat Recipes: Deliciously Healthy Family Meals
  • Delicious Heart Healthy Latino Recipes/ Platillos latinos ¡sabrosos y saludables!
  • Heart Healthy Home Cooking African American Style

California Department of Public Health

• Asian Cookbook English | Chinese | Vietnamese

Share Happy Heart flyers with family, friends, and community

• English | Amharic | Arabic | Chinese | Samoan | Spanish | Tagalog | Vietnamese

Learn more about heart health with these Happy Heart education resources

• Blood Pressure Range:  English | Chinese | Spanish
• Check the Nutrition Label:  English | Chinese | Spanish
• DASH Diet Tips:  English | Spanish
• What is the DASH Diet:  English | Spanish
• Happy Heart Recipe Cards:  English | Spanish

Herb Seasoning Mix

English | Spanish

Printable Blood Pressure Logs

English/Spanish | Chinese | Vietnamese

DASH Diet Resources

Content Sources:
1) https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/factsheets/nutrition.htm
2) https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/sites/default/files/publications/WhyDASHWorks_UpdateNov20.pdf