Hi there,

Welcome to the latest edition of In a Heartbeat. We’re glad to announce that we’re now working from our new state of the art facility in Newtown, following its recent official opening by the Governor General Ms Quentin Bryce AC, as covered in this newsletter.

You’ll also read about more of the important research you’re helping to make happen and our resident fitness expert Guy Leech gives further Lifestyle Tips for Healthier Living. As always, there’s a delicious new recipe from Heart Food – the Healthy Heart Cookbook.

Enjoy your newsletter… and thank you again for your wonderful support.

New Research Facility Open for Business

Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, has officially opened The Heart Research Institute’s new state of the art facility of in Newtown.
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High Density Lipoproteins to prevent Diabetes

Diabetes is associated with a loss of function within the cells in the pancreas that make insulin. This is a major problem in both type-1 diabetes (the severe disease that afflicts children) and type-2 diabetes, which affects many adults as they become overweight… and close to 80% of all diabetics will die from a heart attack or stroke!
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Guy Leech’s Fitness Forum

Make every minute count

In a busy world, one of the most common excuses for not exercising is lack of time. Guy Leech says this isn’t really an excuse, but a cop out.
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Chocolate Tiramisu with Raspberries – only 2g of saturated fat per serve!

Berries contain antioxidants called anthocyanins and proanthocyanins as well as vitamin C that helps protect blood vessels. Coffee and dark chocolate also contain antioxidants – the higher the cocoa content, the higher the antioxidants. Serves 4, each serving containing 1 ½ serves of fruit.
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Hero of the Heart

The MK Challenge has been postponed and will now take place in March 2010.

You may remember that Paul Keegan - a valued supporter of The Heart Research Institute who recently lost his father Michael to heart disease - launched the MK Challenge as a way to both honour his dad’s memory and raise money for heart research. The Challenge is in fact a bike ride of 1,100kms from Sydney to Melbourne. Click here to read more about the MK Challenge and to help the inaugural event raise its target of $50,000 for heart research.

Keep helping us fight Heart Disease and WIN a Volkswagen Golf!

Here's a great opportunity for you to own a brand new Volkswagen Golf, just by extending your existing support of The Heart Research Institute. Buy tickets in the ASX Thomson Reuters Charity Foundation Art Union and you’ll lend a further hand to our fight against Australia's biggest Killer … AND you could WIN your own Volkswagen Golf as part of a total prize package valued at over $68,000!

Click here for more information and to purchase your tickets. Good luck!

Awards for young HRI researchers

The Australian Atherosclerosis Society holds an Annual Scientific Meeting each year. This meeting provides a forum at which scientists from all around the country present their recent discoveries. It also gives graduate students and junior investigators an opportunity to present their findings in a formal setting. Competition among junior investigators to present at this meeting is fierce, as the best of them are all in the running for four highly prestigious awards.
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Meet the Team

In this issue, meet HRI Team Member Dr Colin Tso, Senior Research Fellow, Lipid Research Group
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