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The healthy heart charity

The healthy heart charity

Preventing heart disease: start young

  • About
    • Privacy Policy
    • Who we are
      • Trustees
      • Patrons
        • Patron – Tony Ahearne
        • Patron – Wade Dimitri FRCS
        • Patron – David Malpas
        • Patron – Leslie Morgan OBE DL
  • Healthy Heart Symposia
    • Health Policy for the Heart and Circulation: 7th December 2017
    • 4th CVRT Symposium: Diet, Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Risk: from Evidence to Policy – 5 December 2014
      • Speaker Abstracts: 5.12.14 – Diet, lifestyle and cardiovascular risk
      • Programme 5.12.14 – Diet, Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Risk: from Evidence to Policy
    • 3rd CVRT Symposium: Diet, Active Lifestyle and Cardiovascular Health: 5 December, 2013
    • 2nd CVRT Symposium on Cardiovascular Health and Healthy Foods: 8th December, 2011
    • 1st CVRT Symposium on Cardiovascular Health and Exercise: 14 July, 2011
  • Healthy heart research
    • Research
    • Publications: Archive
  • Healthy Heart: Start Young
    • Healthy Heart Awards
      • School winners of CVRT Healthy Heart Awards
      • Enter for Healthy Heart Awards
    • Healthy Heart Poetry
      • Healthy Heart Poetry Publications
      • Videos of Healthy Heart Poetry
  • Heart Health Policy
    • Public health and the heart in manifestos of UK political parties in 2015 and 2017
      • Public heart health in UK political manifestos
        • Public health in manifestos of UK political parties for 2017 General Election
        • Letter to Conservatives re 2015 election manifesto
        • Letter to Labour re 2015 election manifesto
        • Letter to Liberal Democrats re 2015 election manifesto
        • Letter to Plaid Cymru re 2015 election manifesto
        • Letter to SNP re 2015 election manifesto
        • Letter to UKIP re 2015 election manifesto
        • Letter to Green Party re 2015 election manifesto
  • News
    • Poetry and healing: the 2017 Hippocrates Young Poets Prize
    • 2017 Hippocrates Young Poet Prize to be awarded at Harvard
    • A love of life: CVRT patrons announce winners of 2016 Hippocrates Young Poet Award for Poetry and Medicine
    • Stories of illness and love of life: shortlist for 2016 Hippocrates Young Poet award for poetry and medicine
    • New target in search for why statin drugs may cause problems for some patients
    • CVRT supporting the 2016 Hippocrates international Young Poets Award for Poetry and Medicine
    • 2016 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine launch at UCH MacMillan Cancer Centre in London
    • European Medicines Agency advice on black triangle prompts for medicines monitoring
    • Shift work and cardiovascular risk
    • Waistline and increased risk of premature death: what’s so new?
    • From public health to new approaches to asthma and cancer: 90 years of the Postgraduate Medical Journal
    • Shift work and cardiovascular risk
    • Keeping weight in check – does the weight of the adviser matter?
    • Why worry about high blood pressure?
    • What works as healthy lifestyle for losing excess weight?
    • Hippocrates Prize awarded to New York City teacher, retired counsellor from Cornwall, and young New Jersey poet
    • Poetry to prevent childhood obesity? The Healthy Heart Poetry Project
    • Human experience at its most raw: the short-list for the 2015 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
    • Wendy French discusses our new initiative: Healthy Heart Poetry for schools
    • Register for CVRT 5th December Symposium on diet, active lifestyle and cardiovascular health
    • Support CVRT when buying skincare from Lubatti
    • Four schools receive 2013 Healthy Heart Awards from Mediterranean Diet researcher
    • Winners announced for 2011 Healthy Heart Awards for schools and colleges
    • Winners of first Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine announced
    • 10 years of the CVRT
  • Publications
    • Writing to delight and instruct: the Hippocrates Book of the Heart
      • London launch of The Hippocrates Book of the Heart: 6th December 2017
    • Publications: Archive
      • Recent publications supported by the CVRT
        • Love your Heart: poems by and for children
  • London launch of The Hippocrates Book of the Heart: 6th December 2017

Healthy Heart: Start Young

The aim of Healthy Heart: Start Young is to encourage interest among children of all ages in lifestyle that helps to keep the heart healthy.

The CVRT is engaging in this important initiative in 3 main ways:

  • Healthy Heart Awards
  • Healthy Heart Poetry
  • Healthy Heart Policy

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