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Show Heart attacks women as well as men Vernal Express Wednesday, August 25, 1999 13 Women owe it U themselves to take heart disease seriously. It isn't something that just affects a husband, father, brother or son but it is also every woman's concern. It's good for women to get to know about heart disease and what can be done to prevent it. According to the Healthy Heart Handbook for Women, written by Marian Sandmaier, each year, about 370,000 women die of heart disease, dis-ease, making it the number one killer of American women. Another 93,000 women die each year of stroke. Overall, about nine million American women of all ages suffer from heart disease. One in 10 women wom-en 45 to 64 years of age has some form of heart disease and this increases in-creases to about one in four women over 65. Each year, a half million women suffer heart attacks. Cardiovascular diseases are diseases dis-eases of the heart and blood vessel system, such as coronary heart disease, dis-ease, heart attack, high blood pressure, pres-sure, stroke, angina (chest pain) and rheumatic heart disease. Coronary heart disease is a disease of the blood vessels of the heart that causes caus-es heart attacks. When an artery becomes be-comes blocked, preventing oxygen and nutrients from getting to the heart, attacks happen. A stroke results re-sults from a lack of blood io the brain, or, in some cases, bleeding in the brain. Some women have more "risk factors" for heart disease than others. oth-ers. Risk factors are traits or habits that make a person more likely to develop disease. Some risk factors can be changed and some not. The ones that can be changed or reduced are cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol, overweight and physical inactivity. Risk factors that can't be controlled are growing older but it's important to realize that other risks can be reduced re-duced at any age. African-American women are 60 percent more likely to die of heart disease than Caucasian women and their death rate for stroke is 24 percent per-cent higher. Older women are more at risk than younger women and after af-ter menopause. Changing habits aren't easy but Americans have learned to control blood pressure and make healthy changes in their eating, smoking and exercise habits, death rates from heart attack and stroke have dropped dramatically. Exercise is one of the risk factors that must change to have a healthy heart especially espe-cially if much weight is to be lost. 1 . Make a Plan - A doctor must be consulted first to develop a sensible, well-balanced plan for gradual weight loss. Take in fewer calories than are burned. 2. Take it slow - No more than a half to one pound per week. Weight loss is not a quick fix, but a healthy, life-long habit. 3. Drink milk - Don't cut dairy products in trying to reduce calories and fat. Choose non-fat or low-fat milk, this way calories are reduced while the amount of calcium remains re-mains the same. Calcium is especially espe-cially important to women. 4. Keep pounds off - Change eating eat-ing habits rather than going on a diet di-et Keep a food diary of what, when and why food is eaten to help one to understand they're eating habits. Recognize situations that trigger overeating and figure out ways to cope with them. 5. Forget the fads - Most fad diets provide poor nutrition and cause many side effects, especially those with less than 800 calories a day. Because fad diets may produce quick and dramatic results, most of the loss is due to water loss and will return quickly once the diet is stopped. 6. Exercise - Physical activity helps burn calories, tone muscles and controls appetite. ' 7. Support - Family and friends can help so confide in them during weight loss. Self-help groups can help too. Menopausal women may develop heart disease in one form or another. anoth-er. Menopause, caused by a decrease de-crease in estrogen produced by a woman's ovaries happens naturally in most women between the ages of 45 and 55 and occurs in women of any age whose ovaries are removed by an operation. As estrogen levels drop, some women develop uncomfortable uncom-fortable symptoms such as hot flashes and mood changes. Hormone replacement therapy can reduce these symptoms. Sandmaier further reports other research that hormone therapy helps to prevent osteoporosis, a thinning of the bones that makes them more likely to break in later life. As women age, they lose mineral density den-sity in their bones.' While advice from a health professional pro-fessional is important, the final responsibility re-sponsibility for heart health lies with each woman. If heart disease is already a problem it can be helped and the women may become stronger and healthier. Have an opinion? Express it in the Express P.O. Box 1000 editoreasllink.com JCujhl !Jixhres florals JCarge Selection Custom CBWTn crapSootNj H w Custom UraminQ and Sid Diane Accessories i Cancer survivor tops Utah's highest peak Making it two years in a row, David B. Hall. 82 of Vernal, joined the Salt Lake City Cancer Wellness House in the annual Survivors at the Summit climb to the top of Utah's highest mountain, Kings Peak. This year, David made the climb with ten other cancer survivors from the Wasatch Front. The three-day three-day trip began August 1 1 with a six mile hike to Dollar Lake as the base camp. From Dollar Lake the group hiked to the summit, 13,528 feet, of Kings Peak. The second day covered cov-ered about eight miles up and back and took about 12 hours. Hall states. The third day was spent hiking hik-ing back from Dollar Lake to where the vehicles were parked. Besides the cancer survivors, Hall had his oldest son Mark and three grandsons in the party. When asked how many times he had hiked to the summit of Kings Peak, Hall scratched his head and said he had lost track, but it was 14 or 15 times. He keeps in shape by regularly walking and hiking into the Uintas where he herded sheep when he was a boy. Cancer survivors placed flags with names of those who have or had cancer, symbolizing the challenge chal-lenge individuals experience when faced with cancer. At the summit is a plaque with the name of surveyor Clarence King and the 13,528 foot elevation. Hall wrote new, meaningful words to the song, There is a Long Long Trail a Winding," as follows: There's a long, long trail a winding, wind-ing, up to Kings Peak we will go. Some will hike a little faster, while the others just walk slow. But when we all get up there, oh, how happy we will be. And to win the fight of Cancer, is our goal, that we may be free. In the evening just at sunset, as the shadows fade away. We thank our Heavenly Father for the blessings of this day. Many friends have gone before us, we feel their presence as we speak. We honor them with all our love, as we bow on top of Kings Peak. There's a long, long trail a winding, wind-ing, from Kings Peak down the hill. What a challenge it is for us to do! and again. Perhaps we will. Our friendship we will cherish, may it never grow frail. The fight of Cancer and Kings Peak is a rocky, winding, long trail." t I f ft i ..J. J".-" ' ..Cl-- 1 r7 ti, J (WW ... . .;-v OS I f r-r I DavkJ B. Hall waves from the top rock of Kings Peak on August 1 1 . He probably is the "King of Bunker Hill" in Utah. iuumry uavtv Academy Preschool 2315 East 500 North "littillia i im f Uinta)" Resting on the summit rocks of Kings Peak is the David B. Hall family. fam-ily. 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