Week 33 - British Heart Foundation

A friend's daughter is giving up chocolate for March - no mean feat!  I tried to give up chocolate for Lent in my teenage years - got all the way to 39 days and had a hot chocolate, completely forgetting that it did count as "chocolate".  I seem to remember eating a lot of Caramac...

Anyway, Eileen Brown is raising money for the British Heart Foundation.  Founded in 1961 by a group of medical professionals, they fund pioneering research into the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of coronary heart disease and other heart diseases and defects.  Over the last 50 years their research has reduced the size of pacemakers from a bulky, external device to one that can be implanted, explored genetics and how heart disease can be inherited and led to new and safer surgical techniques.

The British Heart Foundation leads campaigns to keep the public informed and the dangers of heart disease and preventative measures such as diet and exercise.  They also take these campaigns to governments, schools and workplaces - among other things they have been at the forfront of many anti-smoking campaigns.

Links
British Heart Foundation
Eileen's JustGiving Page