Some sobering facts you may not know about heart disease:

• Coronary heart disease kills more than twice as many women as breast cancer in the UK.

• There are 900,000 women living in the UK with coronary heart disease.

• Over 450,000 women in the UK have had a heart attack.

• Post-menopause, our risk of heart disease increases due to changes in our hormones.

We are going to follow this introduction with 8 tips to a much healthier heart!