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It's American Heart Month, sis.  Risk factors like obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, high cholesterol, smoking and physical inactivity put Black women at a higher risk for heart disease. These factors can be controlled by lifestyle and dietary changes. So it's time to literally take the necessary steps to protect your heart.  Other factors, like a family  history  of early heart disease can't be controlled. For women, heart disease becomes a risk factor at 55. That’s because, as the American Heart Association explains, after menopause, women are more likely to get heart disease. Partly, this is because their body no longer produces estrogen. Also, middle age is a time when women tend to develop other heart disease risk factors. That's  even  more incentive to take  care of ourselves, physically and emotionally.  Stress can also wreak havoc on our heart health. So make self-care a priority, whatever that looks like for you. Light some candl...

According to the American Heart Association , more women die of cardiovascular disease than all forms of cancer.  But 80 percent of strokes and heart attacks in women could be prevented if women made healthy choices involving diet, exercise and abstinence from smoking. NY Collection Draped Blazer, $39.99 Show your support for heart health awareness by shopping at Macy's.  As the sponsor of the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women Movement , the department store is offering a 20 percent discount storewide through Sunday, Feb. 5 to shoppers who wear red to any Macy's location . You can also shop online using the promo code, RED. Another way to show your support is to purchase a Red Dress Pin for $2 and Macy's will donate all sales to AHA's Go Red for Women Movement.