WomenHeart CEO Celina Gorre loves to cook, and she loves to entertain her family, friends and colleagues. Her pick for holidays is this heart healthy and delicious roasted salmon dish. Complete with luscious pomegranates and savory braised Fennel, it's ready in just...
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Festive Recipes for Heart Healthy Holidays
Get ready to make some magic in the kitchen this holiday season! Our Senior Manager of Development and Partner Relations, Evan Riggs has chosen this creamy white bean soup with kale, rosemary and lemon. This irresistible bowl of soup offers zesty flavor without being...
Festive Recipes for Heart Healthy Holidays
Calling all health-conscious holiday revelers - this festive twist on veggie snacking is sure to light up your plate! Our own Samantha Bohrt, Senior Manager of Programs & Hospital Partnerships, has selected a delicious and creative Healthy Santa Snack Board for...
Festive Recipes for Heart Healthy Holidays
WomenHeart has curated an array of delicious holiday recipes. Our Vice President of Advocacy & Communications, Amy Friedrich-Karnik, likes to entertain. Her pick for the season is Pomegranate Pear Punch. With just seven ingredients - blood orange, sparkling blood...
5 Ways to Find Balance This Holiday Season
The holidays are upon us, and that means your social calendar AND your to-do list are probably filling up quickly. Between work parties and holiday gatherings, shopping trips and making meals, it's easy to feel stressed and overwhelmed. Holiday stress can have an...
How to Talk to Your Family about Heart Health History
Approaching your loved ones and asking them about heart conditions or other diseases may be difficult. Maybe they don’t have all of the information; perhaps you feel uncomfortable talking about illness, or maybe the whole topic feels taboo in your family. In some...
Inequities in Health Outcomes for Women of Color
You may be familiar with the effects of factors like age and gender on people’s health. But did you know that race and ethnicity can play a significant role in health outcomes? First, people of certain ethnicities experience disproportionately higher rates of certain...
The Link Between Heart Disease and Diabetes
Porothea was 46 years old and living with diabetes when she had a heart attack and stroke. Today she balances being a grandmother and health care worker with managing diabetes and heart failure. She’s also a WomenHeart Champion and encourages other women to know their...
An End of Year Message
Before we breathe a deep sigh of relief as we put 2020 behind us, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on this year for the WomenHeart family - a year marked by adversity and redeemed by resilience and grace. I don't want to mince words - for far too many of us, 2020...
A Special Week for WomenHeart
There has been so much to endure this year – a pandemic the likes of which we haven’t seen in a century, deep economic stagnation leading millions to lose their jobs, school closures disrupting the educational progress and social development of young people, social...
National Cholesterol Education Month
While many aspects of our daily lives have been uncertain lately due to the coronavirus pandemic, one thing we can count on is that the seasons are changing and September is here, which means National Cholesterol Education Month. High cholesterol is a major modifiable...
Statement from WomenHeart Board of Directors
The Board of Directors sent the following message to the WomenHeart community today: WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease has been reflecting deeply in recent days as we have witnessed the devastating impact of racism and structural...