National Wear Red Day ® is Friday February 1st
Go Red for Women!
National Wear Red Day ® is a day to raise awareness about heart disease, especially about how heart disease affects women.
Heart disease is something that hits close to home for me, in part because it runs in my family. Even more scary to me, though, is over the last couple of years two women I know that were around my age have died from heart attacks
According to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute coronary heart disease is the #1 killer of both men and women in the United States.
According to the American Heart
Association:
“The fact is: Heart disease kills one in three women each year –
that’s approximately one woman every minute. But it doesn’t affect
all women alike, and the warning signs for women aren’t the same in
men. What’s more: These facts only begin to scratch the
surface.”
For information about the myths around women and heart disease
go to:
http://www.goredforwomen.org/about-heart-disease/facts_about_heart_disease_in_women-sub-category/myths-about-heart-disease/
There is also a fun challenge for Wear Red Day – America Goes
Red Challenge http://wearredday.goredforwomen.org/
“We’re
looking for the most spirited supporters to paint the town red!
Show us how you Go Red by uploading your photos from Facebook,
Instagram, Flickr or your desktop in one of the categories. Let’s
turn a red spotlight on America and raise awareness of the issue of
heart disease in women.”
~ Marcie