Ask Your Doctor About The Heart TruthIt’s never too early — or too late — to take your heart into your own hands. Talk to your doctor about your personal risk so that you can take action to lower it.
Since the age of five, I have seen the people I love so dearly struggle with Heart Disease. It was never out of the ordinary for an ambulance to come to my home any hour of the day or night. Heart Disease is prevalent on both the paternal and maternal sides of my family, and I have witnessed both of my grandfathers struggle to beat this deadly disease. My father has five stents in his heart, my maternal grandfather has had a heart attack and my paternal grandfather has suffered heart attacks and strokes too numerous to count, and has endured two open heart surgeries; the first of which was when he was only 51 years old, which is merely thirty years older than I am now! My mom, who has had kidney problems since she was a baby, had high blood pressure which lead to a diagnosis to a narrowing in her renal artery, which is the artery that carries blood to her kidney. Fortunately, due to the immense money raised for research by the AHA she has a stent in her renal artery and her blood pressure is now normal. Raising funds for this remarkable organization has touched everyone in my family and I hope that my efforts will help others too!
I am on a quest to make a difference by helping to fight this deadly disease. I am working so hard not to allow this disease to attack my body. I pray that my future family will never have to know what it is like to live with this deadly disease! Please consider helping me with my mission by making a generous donation to the AHA on my behalf. It is because of money raised by the AHA that life saving stents were invented, and my dad is alive today because of them!
Each day research supported by the AHA get closer and closer to new drugs and procedures that may save the life of someone you love too!
One way I am fighting heart disease and stroke by participating in the American Heart Association’s Start! Heart Walk. Please support this cause by making a donation that will help provide research and education to stop our No. 1 and No. 3 killers. The statistics show that one day it WILL save the life of someone you know of love too! Thank you in advance for your support!
Each year, the work of the AHA yields fresh insights that fuel the development of new medications, new surgical techniques, new treatment regimens and new recommendations for preventing heart disease. From conditions affecting the very young, to heart disease and stroke resulting from age-related factors, they are there to help reduce your risk and the risk of those you love. I ask for your support, on their behalf as the AHA continues to look for new ways to keep your heart-healthy and strong!
I am fighting heart disease and stroke by participating in the American Heart Association’s Start! Heart Walk. Please support this cause by making a donation that will help provide research and education to stop our No. 1 and No. 3 killers. Thank you in advance for your support!
With as little as $5, you can make a donation today in the name of Chelsea for START & Go Red For Women. Simply click on the BLUE link above and follow the simple instructions.
Go RED by giving some GREEN! Support Chelsea by purchasing a MNC support button to wear at the pageant! Each button costs $5.00 and ALL proceeds go to the American Heart Association...so join me in the fight cardiovascular disease and stroke and reserve your 2.5 inch pin back button today! Email MomoThree@aol.com NOW. Quantities are limited!! Thanks so much for your support!
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I just wanted to let you know of another company that is supporting AHA and to encourage you to do business with them. If you get oil changes, please consider using Jiffy Lube. Last year, Jiffy Lube raised $1 million for the AHA. This year they have set a goal to raise $1.5 million. They do this by asking their customers to make a $3 donation to AHA. In exchange for the donation customers receive a coupon book for $100 in savings at Jiffy Lube and other retailers. Putting the "Queen's touch on one of the auction tables...
The Greatest G105 Crew. I also got to work with them at the CMN Duke phone-a-thon! Always a pleasure!
She has her black belt in Tikwando!
With Wake Heart Associates.
She has been so supportive of me for years! I wish you well Vanessa...she is getting married in April!
My daddy...he is doing GREAT! Lost some Lbs too!! Go Dad! I keep working on him! He is swimming two miles a day. His heart is actually beginning to bypass itself! I want him around for a long, long time!
The day begins with set up at 9:00 AM. This year, each bidder received a lovely world travel digest. After unwrapping the "shrink wrap" from each book, I tied lovely "GO RED" ribbons around each.
Back again by 5:30 to meet and greet and model jewelry. Thousands of dollars was raised for the Triangle Chapter of the AHA. Cars, trips to all corners of the US and beyond, and even an opportunity to have Shack O' Neal's personal chef come to your home and cook for a party of 25!
Another memorable event! By the way, one of the pictures is with the surgeon that saved my mom's life. Dr. Satcher places stents into clogged arteries. My mom has one in her renal artery leading to her kidney! I hugged his neck and got the opportunity to thank him personally. Along with my father's heart disease (five stents in his heart), both my maternal and paternal grandfathers have had heart attacks and one has had several strokes. I have lived with heart disease in my family for as long as I can remember. I feel so honored when I can give back to the people and the AHA who have on so many occasions, saved the ones I love so dearly!
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Chelsea and Dr. Richard Daw with Wake Heart and
Vascular Associates.
Chelsea volunteers with his practice and has learned so much
about heart disease and treatments. Chelsea attends North
Carolina State University and is studying Science in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, which happens to be where Dr. Daw began his medical career. According to Chelsea, "this
has been the most rewarding part of being a title holder,
discovering through working with heart patients, just how strongly
I want to pursue my platform and continue to tell my story and hopefully save lives along the way by encouraging everyone to go see their doctor and find out if they are in danger of having a cardiovascular event!
Every two minutes, someone has a heart attack and only half survive. Heart disease is the number one killer among American
men and women and continues to increase each year. Heart disease is a reality, whether it is genetic or lifestyle related. While there is no cure for heart disease, there are ways to reduce your risk of developing it later in life.
Heart disease has been diagnosed on both sides of my family. I fight for my life each and every day due to my genetic predisposition. My goal is to reach out to thousands of people by the end of my reign as Miss Johnston County 2007, spreading
the message that it is never too late to begin living a heart-healthy lifestyle.
Start today! Love Your Heart, Love Yourself
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency to help reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. Click here to visit the American Heart Association website and learn how to take care of you heart: www.americanheart.org.
Believe it or not, children learn exercise and healty eating habits early in life and from their parents! Below are helpful links for parents to learn how to raise Heart Healthy Kids! If there is heart disease in your family, you can begin now to reduce the risk of your child developing the disease by as much as 85%...Start NOW!This information is invaluable for parents who want to "break the cycle" of raising children who are unhealthy and may grow up to be adults with cardiovascular related illnesses. How to choose healthy alternatives when "on the run", how to get your kids up off the sofa and get them moving!
Current research shows that the primary risk factors for cardiovascular disease (e.g. high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, lack of physical activity, overweight and obesity, and smoking) are occurring in alarmingly increasing rates among children and adolescents. These findings, combined with evidence of the presence of fatty streaks (the precursors to atherosclerotic lesions) in the arteries of children as young as three, have led researchers to believe that the time to begin preventing cardiovascular disease is in childhood.While reviewing autopsies of 760 young men and women, arterial blockage was found in 2% of the 15- to 19-year-old boys. Although this percentage was tiny, the researchers were surprised to see any blockages at all in people of that age group. This alarming statistic is growing each and every year! It must be stopped!
What Can I Do? ONE voice for the many! Passion with a Purpose!
Nearly 200,000 You're the Cure advocates across the country have been calling on their local, state, and federal lawmakers to address the issue of heart disease and other forms of cardiovascular disease and their voices are being heard! You can join them in ensuring the nation’s No. 1 killer is made a priority by the decision makers of our country. Remember - your legislators work for you!
Contact your legislator and ask him or her to:
You don't have to be a high-powered lobbyist to call on Congress. Just someone who knows that the action we take today for the women close to our hearts will lead to a healthier tomorrow.
Click on this link to find how to contact YOUR congressperson. Include the information in the above "What Can I Do" section, include your name and address and hit send! It is as easy as that. Advocacy is free! Take advantage...become an advocate for someone you love
This is an invitation from Miss Garner 2009 to enjoy a healthier lifestyle with Start Making Choices,
a new wellness program from Healthy Choice.
As a member, you'll get:
Personalized meal plans including your favorite Healthy Choice products
A personalized fitness plan with activities you can get excited about
Logs and trackers that show your progress toward achieving realistic goals
Rewards, including a 30-day membership to Bally Total Fitness, three free issues of Health magazine, and the chance to win a
trip to the American Heart Association Start! Heart walk in Hawaii. Plus, Healthy Choice will donate $1 to the American Heart Association's Start! movement for every person who joins Start Making Choices.
All of that just by signing up here:
Click here: Start Making Choices
The American Heart Association’s growing cookbook offers unique recipes that are as heart-healthy as they are delicious. They’re developed to help you make the right food choices, with lots of whole grains, fat-free and low-fat dairy products, vegetables and fruits. 
