Spanish Heart Foundation promotes health cardiovascular in Instagram.

-since last Monday, and until the next September 11, all the amateur photographers can participate in the campaign # Esuchatucorazon which gets underway with the aim of promoting cardiovascular health among the population, because according to the World Health Organization (who), 80% of premature deaths could have been prevented by following a healthy lifestyle and reducing risk factors

– the campaign, devised by the Spanish Foundation of the heart (FEC), is based on sharing photos from application Instagram reflecting attitudes and healthy moments for our heart

– collection of the best images builda a giant 10 metre wall full of good wishes to our hearts and that will be installed in the enclosure heart-healthy during the week in the heart of Barcelona, this year will be located in Plaza Universidad from September 28 to October 2, framed in the world heart day

-the FEC also held the week of the heart in MadridSeville, Valencia and Bilbao simultaneously, as well as the Popular career III of the heart in the Casa de Campo of the capital

Madrid, August 2012.- the Spanish Foundation of the heart (FEC), with the collaboration of the Spanish society of Cardiology (SEC), kicked off the campaign # Escuchatucorazon on Instagram aiming to promote cardiovascular health between myoung people, since the World Health Organization (who) indicates that up to 80% of premature deaths could be prevented with healthier life habits: not smoking, a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low in fat, do not abuse alcohol and practice 30 minutes of physical activity every daythey are some of them.

Under the profile @ cuidarcorazon , since last Monday and until the next 9/11, the FEC will launch a different challenge each week in which invite all users to share ideas, attitudes and habits that are good for our health in general, and especially for our heart.

Thanks to the collaboration of all participants, will be built, with the best photographs that are collected, a giant wall of more than 10 metres in length, showing the good wishes of the Spanish population to the health of our heart. This wall will be installed at street, inside heart-healthy of the FEC during the week in the heart of Barcelona, which this year will take place from 28 September to 2 October and will be located in Plaza Universidad.

All registered users in Instagram and older may participate in this original initiative by raising as many photographs as you wish.

La Semana del Corazón se celebrará, además, del 24 de septiembre al 2 de octubre en Madrid, Valencia, Sevilla y Bilbao. There, all citizens who come to the various heart-healthy venues may be free trials to measure the State of your cardiovascular health, as well as participate in numerous activities that seek to educate about the importance of preventing such diseases.

In addition, on 29 September, more than 3,000 people are in the People’s heart race III , to encourage the practice of physical exercise as a habit of life essential to reduce cardiovascular risk. The March is held annually in Madrid and has three different routes between the Casa de Campo and Madrid River (race 10 km, popular children’s races of 800 meters and 4.5 Km running).

These actions are part of a campaign led by the FEC that aims to convert the month of September in the month of the heart and cardiovascular health, since September 29 commemorates the World Heart Day .

Is essential to inculcate habits of life, especially among children and young persons, the population to take awareness from an early age of the importance that has the prevention to prevent cardiovascular disease in the future. The sooner they take as their own good habits, less effort will lead them to keep them and thus they preserved their health over the years ”, says Dr. José Luis Palma, Vice-President of the FEC.

La enfermedad cardiovascular es la primera causa de defunción en el mundo. Each year more than 17 million people die for this cause and in 2010 were almost 120,000 Spaniards who died by some of these diseases (31.2% of all deaths), according to recent data published by the National Institute of statistics (INE).

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both entities have become the benchmark in Spanish in the fight against cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in our country.

The SEC there are more than 4,000 members, between cardiologists and professionals related to cardiovascular diseases, from European, Latin American and international Spanish.

The FEC has more than 4,000 members, including SEC cardiologists, nurses in cardiology, associations of patients, private entities and private partners.