heart disease
Last updated by menofaction on Fri, 11/09/2007 - 23:55.
The Heart Truth campaign has been education women about the risks of heart disease, including how to recognize these danger signs. To focus on how women can take action to reduce their risk of heart disease. The good news is heart disease is preventable. If everyone had low levels of risk factors heart disease in American could be reduced by about 80 percent. But having even one risk factor increase the chances of getting heart disease, and having multiple risk factors greatly increase risk. Lifestyle modification and diet and exercise will be the main core areas of improvement.
Last updated by lmelodia on Tue, 04/15/2008 - 11:53.
I started the Bed-Stuy CSA, because families in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn are unable to purchase fresh vegetables in the neighborhood. This lack of access to fresh, healthy food contributes to the neighborhood’s significant health epidemics: according to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Health of Central Brooklyn report, residents of Bedford-Stuyvesant suffer a rate of heart disease 30% higher than the NYC average and are two times more likely to have diabetes than the average New Yorker. In fact, 1 in 3 Bed-Stuy residents is obese.
