This week and through Friday of next week, West Hollywood will join cities across the nation in lighting up red. Lights on the front of West Hollywood City Hall will glow red to encourage attention to women’s heart health during February, American Heart Month.
In addition, City Hall employees on Thursday and Friday are participating in National Wear Red Day, an effort to show off a favorite red dress, shirt or tie while getting the word out about the fight against heart disease in women.
The West Hollywood Women’s Heart Health Campaign began in 2006. Only 20% of women identify heart disease as the greatest health problem facing women. However, one in three women will die of heart disease. Survivors of heart disease may also suffer disability and a significantly decreased quality of life. According to the American Heart Association, heart disease claims more women’s lives than all forms of cancer combined
The City of West Hollywood’s efforts are coordinated in support of the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women Campaign, a social initiative designed to empower women to take charge of their heart health. Throughout American Heart Month the city will distribute educational materials and promote heart health awareness for both women and men at various community events and through engagement with the local business community.
could you imagine living in a world where you have to participate in all of these silly expressions of support which have absolutely no impact but to make the organizers or ‘in crowd clique’ feel good? so wear red, don’t wear blue, it’s black history month but squeeze in a ‘we all have a heart or lungs’ week. next month it’ll be st. patricks’s day but isn’t he a catholic saint, but west hollywood doesn’t believe in filthy organized religion, because a monorah might send someone into a seizure. hey wait, what if uninformed citizens think that city hall glowing… Read more »