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Adjusting your diet 

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Although you may consider your current diet to be fairly healthy, you may be required to reduce key elements of it, such as salt, fat and alcohol. You may be referred to a dietician who will work with you to develop a personalised diet to improve the way you feel and help control your heart failure.

Click on any of the links below to learn more about how you can improve your diet:

Please note: these links will take you through to the section within What can you do? and so you will need to navigate back to here once you have finished viewing this information.

Maintaining a healthy weight
Salt
Fluids
Alcohol
Potassium
Fats and cholesterol
Diabetic diet
Links to recipes

Read The European Cook Book, an initiative of the European Society of Cardiology

The European Cook Book is a unique collection of mouth-watering and culturally diverse recipes provided by ESC National and Affiliated Societies.

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