OK, I am another year older on Friday, Feb. 6, but that's not the only reason I'll be wearing red. I love the color, but I'll be wearing it Friday for "Go Red for Women" Day.
The American Heart Association promotes the event as a way to educate women about heart disease and its prevention. Choices we make each day can either help or hurt our hearts. So choose something fabulous and red to wear Friday, but also choose to eat baked, not fried. Choose to stop smoking. Choose to move more. Choose to give in support of research. Choose to live.
So many people in my life have been claimed by heart disease, including my mother, who feared cancer most of her life but died after a stroke. Heart disease had never been on her radar screen.
Think of all those people in your heart and make the choice to take care of your heart for them. I choose to eat healthy, maintain a healthy weight and exercise for my four beautiful/handsome children and for Rus, the man in my life. And yes, I do it for myself, too.
Check out www.goredforwomen.org for more info, including a shopheart.org link that has some awesome red things, including little "red dress" logo dangly earrings, red compacts, Go Red backpacks, scarves, ties for the men in our lives and more!
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