Women asked to love your heart, attend luncheon

Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 health threat facing women today.

What can women do? Nearly 500,000 females die annually from cardiovascular diseases such as heart disease and stroke, including close to 14,700 New Jersey women.

What can women do? Since 1984, the number of cardiovascular disease deaths for females has exceeded those for males. At all ages more women than men die from stroke. What can women do?

Love your heart, make a change and take charge of your life by attending the fourth annual New Jersey American Heart Association Go Red for Women luncheon May 2.

The American Heart Association Go Red for Women movement is a national movement to make women aware of their risk for heart disease and stroke and take action to reduce that risk.

The Go Red for Women movement in New Jersey is about our mothers and daughters, sisters and grandmothers, aunts, best friends, coworkers, and all the women in our lives.

Love your heart is the message the American Heart Association is delivering to women across the country and at the Go Red for Women luncheon May 2.

By loving your heart, you can save it. Why? Because heart disease and stroke can be prevented.

The recent recipient of the prestigious 2006 State of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Division on Women Wynona M. Lipman Award for Service in Healthcare to Women, the American Heart Association Go Red for Women luncheon provides women with lifesaving information, resources and hope to live a longer, stronger life.

There will be inspiring survivor stories, educational sessions, and a keynote address urging women to find their real heart, their real selves, and live healthier, more authentic lives.

Do something today to make you feel proud. Make a change. Love your heart by attending the statewide American Heart Association Go Red for Women luncheon May 2 at The Palace in Somerset.

Then leave a legacy for future generations of New Jersey women by sharing the information with other women.

Learn more by calling the American Heart Association at (609) 538-0713.

Diane Turton

co-chair

American Heart Association 2006

Go Red for Women

luncheon