workbook

You can lower your risks for

heart disease, breast cancer and

wellness

osteoporosis. Here’s how.

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE. BREAST CANCER. OSTEOPOROSIS.

Call them “The Big Three” in women’s health care. Of this trio,

the most deadly to women is cardiovascular disease. It claims

more women’s lives (more than 500,000 a year) than all forms

of cancer combined, including breast cancer. Although cardio-

vascular disease may build up over many years, its impact can

be quite sudden, often resulting in a heart attack.

Breast cancer alone will strike more than 180,000 times this

year and take more than 40,000 lives. The bone-thinning disease

osteoporosis threatens more than 44 million Americans ages 50

and older (mostly women) and results in nearly as many deaths

a year as breast cancer.

If someone in your family, such as your mom, has one of these

diseases, your risk is higher. But family history doesn’t spell

gloom and doom. You can go a long way toward beating the odds

by changing your lifestyle and taking steps to modify your risk.

This workbook will show you how. Let’s get started by assessing

some of your personal risk factors for The Big Three.

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