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How heart smart are you? Test your knowledge about heart health with our quick health quiz. Find out how diet, exercise, smoking and other factors can affect your risk of heart disease.

1. Too much cholesterol affects your heart by
A. Increasing the rate of your heartbeat
B. Slowing blood flow to the heart
C. Decreasing your energy levels and making you lethargic

2. Which of these will help you control your cholesterol levels?
A. Regular exercise
B. Modifying your diet
C. Regular exercise and modifying your diet

3. To get any health benefit from exercise you need to:
A. Exercise vigorously for two hours once a week
B. Exercise until you're exhausted
C. Exercise moderately for 30 minutes most days

4. All cholesterol is bad for your heart.
A. True
B. False
C. Not sure

5. Adults should aim for a daily fibre intake of:
A. 5 -10g
B. 10 - 20g
C. 30 - 35g

6. Smokers have a 70 per cent greater risk of death from coronary heart disease than non-smokers.
A. True
B. False
C. Don't know

7. Fifteen years after giving up smoking, a smoker’s risk of heart disease is:
A. The same as when you gave up smoking
B. Halved
C. The same as if you had never smoked

> Check the correct answers. You might also be interested in:
Cholesterol.
Heart disease - risk factors explained.
Heart disease and food.
Heart explained.
Osteoporosis.
Physical activity - it's important.
Smoking and heart disease.

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