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Don't be surprised tomorrow when everyone around you is wearing red. It isn't some weird fashion trend you missed the boat on, it's just a good old fashioned viral campaign intended to make people aware of a very big risk women face. A risk often overlooked. Heart Disease - the number one killer of women.
Carly tells us why she wears red in February.
When I was thirteen, my father had quintuple bypass surgery. My father was in his early thirties. I was barely a teenager and this was the late 1970’s so let’s be clear. The health crazy hadn’t hit America. Nobody knew from trans fats or low fat. Restaurants cooked the way they wanted and nobody special ordered. There weren’t little neat packets of salad dressing from Weight Watchers or other brands and there certainly weren’t understanding waiters and waitresses just waiting to ask angry and annoyed chefs if they’d cook to order. But there was one embarrassed, mortified teenage girl who couldn’t believe her mother made special salad dressing in Tupperware cups that leaked all over; and then brought said cups to restaurants to use for my dad. “Do you have margarine instead of butter?†she’d ask. I wanted to crawl under the table. Stupid me. It took until I was a grown up to realize instead of being embarrassed, I should have been GRATEFUL my dad had survived and was there with me at dinner so I COULD be embarrassed.
Amanda kate, For My Mother.
This post is dedicated to my Mother. She is my strength, my inspiration and my best friend.
I want to remind everyone that February is National Heart Month, and Friday February 2nd is National Wear Red Day. 1 in 3 women will suffer from heart disease. It kills more women each year than Cancer, yet some women still have trouble getting the proper diagnosis and treatment.
Blog Fabulous says Campbell's soup is joining the red campaign.
This time it is Campbell’s Yes! Campbell’s soup…teaming up with The American Heart Association.
The campaign, Go Red With Campbell’s has incorporated the regulation tactics of many charities, such as the star component, Lorraine Bracco — The Soprano’s, Dr. Melfi.
An old post, but well worth reading, Dr Helen tells us more than we want to know.
At the age of 37, I thought I was in great health. I had run regularly from the age of 12, worked as a weight trainer at the New York University gym and practiced karate. Although I never thought I was invincible, I had no idea that I would have a heart attack. My family had always had a history of cancer so I figured that if I got sick, this would be my fate (hopefully later on down the line). However, one day I finished working out in the gym and was driving home with my husband when I became short of breath. It was an awful feeling--I felt like I was smothering to death and going to pass out. My husband called 911 and was told to get me to the nearest hospital which he did.
A Weight Lifted is joining the campaign, too.
Celebrate with women from all over the country and sport your favorite red ensemble on February 2, 2007. Maybe not as sexy as a dozen red roses, but what could be more important than having a healthy heart? All the better to love someone with.
Check out the Heart Truth Events, toss on some red clothes in support, and talk to your doctor about YOUR heart disease (and stroke) risk.
~~Denise
Daily Dose of Denise and Fast Times @ Homeschool High
Image Credit: NHLBI
