Love your heart, or it may cost you your life

"The message about heart disease is not getting through to New Zealanders. More and more of us are being diagnosed with cardiac conditions because people are not taking enough responsibility for their health, reports Jenny Meyer. Campaigns to encourage Kiwis to drop their alarming rate of heart disease face an extra barrier this year - the biggest rise in food prices in a couple of decades. 'It's easier and often cheaper to buy high fat, high salt and high sugar foods, than healthy foods like fruit and vegetables,' says Obesity Action Coalition director Leigh Sturgiss. The Statistics New Zealand food price index for the year to August confirms that healthy food is getting more expensive"