A style blog based on a fifty-something Baby Boomer doing her best to age gracefully.
By now, we all know, heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the United States. Here are simple everyday strategies to prevent heart disease.
1. Establish a Relationship With Your Doctor
My primary care physician, whom I’ve known for the last 20 years, is my partner and advisor for my health. She proactively put me on a blood pressure-lowering agent when my numbers started to creep as I entered midlife.
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I’m asking another question in today’s blog post: Do you know the health of your heart? I know I can be annoyingly curious, but I find asking questions is a great way to educate myself and others (if they’re interested).
I rounded up a bevy of beauties to draw awareness to an annual life-saving health awareness alert: heart disease in women who I’ve asked to join me in participating in National Wear Red Day on Friday, February 2. You can join in on the fun, too! All you have to do to join us is upload […]
na February is American Heart Month, a time to raise awareness of the disease that causes one in three deaths each year. In honor of this, I am going to introduce a new series on the blog, Lady in Red, focusing on women’s heart health. Meet Nina Forrest, an artisan jeweler living in Albuquerque, New […]