World Heart Day is September 29, 2015.
Did you know that 17.3 MILLION people die from cardiovascular disease 
each year? Sobering fact, isn’t it.
World Heart Day calls attention to this fact and gives us the opportunity to “take part in the world’s biggest intervention against cardiovascular disease (CVD).”
This year’s focus is on our environment, or rather making sure that everyone has the opportunity to make heart healthy choices in their home, where they work and where they play.
This could include working to provide healthy green spaces or places to walk and ride bicycles; encouraging healthy meals in our schools and work environments; and ensuring that we all are free from environments where there is second-hand smoke and other air pollutants.
CVDs are any diseases of the heart, vascular disease of the brain (think stroke) or disease of the blood vessel.
Download the Eat for Goals app for your children. They can score goals to see healthy recipes from their favorite football (soccer) players.
Find out your Heart Age with this calculator.
What you can do now for you and your family-
1.Learn the warning signs for heart attack and for stroke.
2.You can do things now to protect your heart even if you have a family history of cardiovascular disease.
3.Stop Smoking NOW.
4. Get up! Get moving!
Every year 15 million people worldwide suffer a stroke.
One other thing….. 16 years ago, we spent 4 months chasing down what was wrong with my husband, Larry. He saw cardiologists and had every test he could have. But they could come up with nothing. I pressed Larry to insist that his cardiologist give him an angiogram. The result-99% blockage in the right artery. Thankfully this was not in the widow-maker.
He’d been diving the whole time and it scares me to think of what could have happened. Larry had 2 stents put in and he was back diving shortly after that.
If you or your loved one is feeling off, listen to your body. And, take charge of it and your own health. Push to get answers, and if you don’t find them with one doctor, find another.
World Heart Day is September 29. Please love your heart and take care of it.
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