By Tracey, Pure Matters Many organizations and women’s groups
are banding together to help teach women the signs and symptoms
of heart disease. Go Red for Women, an American Heart
Association initiative, joined forces with actress Elizabeth
Banks to help get the message out. Together they produced a
short film: ‘Just a Little Heart Attack.’ Banks directed and
starred, and almost half a million people have viewed the
entertaining and informative video. The concept is simple: many
women aren’t aware of heart attack symptoms and many times,
ignore them because they’re “too busy” to deal with it. Banks
plays a Supermom who tries to ignore the obvious signs that
she’s suffering a heart attack. Here’s a formal list of heart
attack symptoms per the National Institute of Health: - Chest
pain or discomfort. This involves uncomfortable pressure,
squeezing, fullness, or pain in the center or left side of the
chest that can be mild or strong. This discomfort or pain often
lasts more than a few minutes or goes away and co