Happy (almost) National Wear A Red Dress Day
Don’t know what you’re going to wear tomorrow? Well let me help you out!
Tomorrow is National Wear A Red Dress day in observance of the leading cause of death among American women - heart disease. Tomorrow I will not only wear red, I will be wearing my “Red Dress” pin that I received after completing a class on heart health. I would ask, that if you own something red, even if it’s just socks, wear them tomorrow to help our nation raise awareness of women’s heart health.
“According to the [American Heart] association, heart disease causes one in every 2.6 female deaths in the U.S. More than 480,000 women die of heart attack, stroke or other heart diseases each year, the association says.”
“The reality is more women die from heart condition problems and heart disease than all forms of cancer,� says Jim Long Jr., corporate relations director of the American Heart Association in Fayetteville.
Cancer gets more attention, Long says, because “it’s such an awful disease and people watch their loved ones suffer� but heart disease is by far the number one killer.
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