Recipe for a Female Heart
February 12th 2010 19:20
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Category: Home and Family
I am straying a little bit from the kitchen today. But for a good reason as you will see. Lately my Facebook page has been filled with the statuses of women sharing their bra colours. The men have been a little chagrined trying to figure out what those colours are all about. All this has been in an effort to raise breast cancer awareness. There you go guys. The secret is out.
While Breast cancer awareness is important, heart disease awareness is even more important, yet it is mentioned less often. Maybe it has to do with fear. Women fear losing their femininity. The loss of a breast would be a blow to own my own feelings of beauty, I know. The breasts are front and centre, viewed and judged regularly. We could say they get a lot of attention.Their health often seems easier to control than other parts of our body. They are easily seen and assessed. Doctors teach us at a young age how to search for differences in texture, discover lumps, dimples and discolourations. The heart is hidden. Its health difficult to assess on your own, until something goes very wrong. Tucked beneath the rib cage it is rarely thought of. But heart disease is the number one killer of women.
Women die of heart attack at an alarming rate. In part because we are not taught the symptoms. The heart issues of women do not seem to receive as much attention as they do in. When a woman thinks of heart attack, she imagines a man clutching his chest in pain and thinks it will be the same for her. But heart attack symptoms in women can be much different. As a first responder (first to arrive after a 911 emergency call) the heart attack symptoms I look for in a woman may have little relationship to what I would see in a man. This is what we look for in women. Heart Attack Symptoms in Women
My next few posts will be about measures you can take in your kitchen to improve the health of your heart. Delicious recipes. Healthier cooking methods. Tips to release stress. Easy ways to get your family on board in your desire to live a healthier lifestyle. We women need to learn to take care of ourselves better. Lately I have been noticing in myself the tendency to worry about the health of my husband and children, but give negligent attention to my own. I worry about my husbands diet and smoking because male heart problems are regularly in the media. It is time the heart health of women was given equal attention.
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