If you are seeing red Feb. 1, thats good Next Friday, Feb. 1, is
the best day to wear red Ė to support National Wear Red Day and
the battle against womenís heart disease. This is the 11th year
that wearing red for womenís heart awareness has been recognized
nationally by the American Heart Association. It kicks off
American Heart Month. More women die of heart disease (heart
attacks and strokes) each year than any other disease Ė often
because the symptoms are missed because they differ from menís
symptoms. Risk factors for heart disease in La Plata County
continue to be higher for the 42 percent of the overweight adult
residents, the one in seven obese, and the more than one in five
who have elevated blood pressure. The Behavioral Risk
Surveillance summary identified that less than one in five are
physically inactive (compared with one in three nationally) and
more than half of La Plata County adults, 57.5 percent, eat fast
food at least once a week. Heart disease risk is higher for
Latinos, which is aggrava