Updated February 2024 I barely know how to process this information, but I’m going to share it because I have to do something. I’ve seen these headlines, stories, and studies before: preeclampsia in pregnancy linked to heart disease. It’s one of the risk factors listed by the National Heart Blood and Lung Institute that I […]
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Feb 2013
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Feb 2013
Nothing at all fun about this one. If you smoke, you are two to six times more likely to suffer a heart attack (not to mention dozens of other life-threatening illnesses and increasing the risk for heart attack and disease for all of those around you). I’ve got no patience for this whatsoever. If you […]
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Feb 2013
Last Saturday I was part of the Hearts for Fashion fashion show at the Mall of America. Sponsored by Boston Scientific as part of the Go Red for Women health fair, the show featured student designers from the University of Minnesota, St. Catherine University, and Minneapolis Community and Technical College. It was also a competition; […]
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Feb 2013
The year of my heart attack, my friend Heidi sent me a jar of this granola for Christmas. Her card said she thinks of me every time she makes it because its main ingredients — oats, flax, almonds, canola oil — are all heart-healthy all-stars. Scott and I stood in the kitchen that night eating […]
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Feb 2013
A heart sister and fellow advocate and speaker I know is fond of asking her audiences to raise their hands if they know their cholesterol numbers (lipid profile). Then she asks them to raise their hand if they know their blood pressure. Last, she asks them to raise their hands if they remember what they […]
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Feb 2013
Yes, you’ll miss out on a few tasty things when you are eating heart healthy (like my former love, alfredo sauce), but when dark chocolate and red wine are not only not forbidden but actually encouraged for heart health, well, it’s hard to feel sorry for yourself. The Cleveland Clinic (ranked the nation’s top heart […]
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Feb 2013
Earlier this week, my son informed me that I’m famous. But then he thought a minute and asked “did you want to be famous?” I said no, not for having a heart attack, but I want to talk about it so other people know more about heart disease. That made sense to him. So here I […]
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Feb 2013
Since my heart attack, I have occasionally eaten ice cream (I think about six times in a year-and-a-half), we have had beef about that many times too, and at Christmas I ate cookies made with butter, but there are some foods that just seem beyond the pale, just too far for this heart patient to […]
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Feb 2013
My husband should probably be named the Go Red for Women Spokeshusband for all time. He stole the show in the video, charmed and inspired at the luncheon, and wrote the second most-read post of all time on this blog when he told his story of the day of my heart attack. I asked him […]
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Feb 2013
If heart disease is the number 1 killer of both women and men in this country, and if 1 in 3 deaths of women are caused by heart disease, it stands to reason that we’re all at risk. In a lot of ways, we’re at risk just because we’re Americans. The way we eat (either […]
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