Keeping the Women we Love Healthy

Images Courtesy of Free Digital Fotos.net “Go Red for Women”, a date designed to raise awareness of heart disease in women, is the first Friday each February. The story behind wearing red to raise awareness the first Friday of February started in 2003, when the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute designed the campaign to create awareness of the severity of heart disease in women.  Back then, the disease was affecting and taking the lives of almost half a million women. Sadly today -- after all the research that has been done regarding heart health and women, there are still those who either don't know the effects of heart disease in women, or believe that heart disease affects more men than women. Did you know that: More American women die of heart disease than of all forms of cancer combined?  Most women do not know that heart disease is the #1 killer of women?  Many of the risk factors for heart disease in women (h...