Be one in a million!

Join a million women in the

Take Your Health to Heart Challenge!

The Take Your Health to Heart Challenge inspires and teaches women of all ages to make simple, heart-healthy lifestyle changes to prevent heart disease and to reduce risk factors for heart attacks and heart-related deaths.

Please join me in taking the challenge and encouraging the women in your life to do the same. You could just save a life, including your own.

Yes! I'm ready to take the Challenge!
(And yes, it's free)

What exactly is the Take Your Health to Heart Challenge for Women?

• Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States (more than the next six causes of death combined) and the leading cause of death of women around the world.
• In the United States, 1 in 2 women will die of heart disease, with close to 500,000 deaths each year.
• More women than men die from first heart attacks.
• 60% of women who suddenly die from a heart attack have never experienced previous symptoms! Because many symptoms of heart disease mirror other disorders, women are less likely to seek help.
• Heart disease is becoming more prevalent in girls, teens, and young women. 70% of children have signs of hardening of the arteries by the age of 12.

The Solution.

The good news is that heart disease is preventable, even those with family histories of heart disease. And women with signs of heart disease can improve their health significantly and reduce their risk of heart-related death by taking action now.

It's never too early, and it's never too late, to start taking care of your heart!

Through healthy lifestyle changes, including but not limited to, diet and exercise, it is possible to both prevent a significant number of heart-related deaths and reduce the risk factors many women experience such as obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol, and stress that lead to heart disease.

Heart disease is a disease of CHOICE, by choosing to live in an unhealthy way.

And the good news is, we can all choose to have a healthy heart!

The Opportunity.

Women are generally the "heart" of the family. Women are largely responsible for the health and lifestyle choices of their spouses, children, and other family members for whom they care. However, because they care for others, women tend to put themselves and their health last on the list.

The Take Your Health to Heart Challenge is designed to teach and inspire women to make heart-healthy lifestyle changes that will save their own lives as well as benefit the whole family. When women put themselves first and take care of their own health, the health and happiness of everyone around them also improves.

It starts with you!

With a million women participating in the Take Your Health to Heart Challenge, millions of men and children will also get heart-healthy in the process. When YOU join the Take Your Health to Heart Challenge, the whole family benefits!

The Goal.

We're aiming to prevent more than 10,000 fatal heart attacks each year -
that's 30,000 lives saved by 2010!

Saving lives, keeping families together, and improving quality of life for all.
It's that simple.

The Challenge.

By signing up for the Take Your Health to Heart Challenge, you are taking a stand for your own health and the health of your family. You are committing to improving your heart health, to preventing heart disease, and to greatly reducing your risk of death from heart-related causes. You are challenging yourself to adopt a heart-healthy lifestyle, and you are joining our mission of saving thousands of lives - yours being one!

All you need to do is enter your name and email address below, and we'll send you everything you need to get started.

Yes! I'm ready to take the Challenge!
(And yes, it's free)

The Five Keys to Heart Health

The Take Your Health to Heart Challenge has 5 key components to support your success!

It's not enough to say we want to get healthy. As women, it's about putting ourselves first on the list instead of last, and taking action to support that.

Read, print, and sign the Pledge that you're committed to taking exquisite care of your heart, your health, and your life, no matter what! Put the Pledge in a visible area and commit to honoring it and yourself every day.

Share the Pledge with others in your family and the women you love and encourage them to join the Take Your Health to Heart Challenge with you!

Information and education pave the road to better health.

Download the guide instantly as well as receive ten weeks of timely tips to support your heart health. From healthy eating to simple lifestyle changes, you'll get the information and tools you need to get into action and to keep your health on the radar screen.

When it comes to taking care of our hearts, many of us know what do. The question is, are you really doing what you need to? Getting started on a new track requires overcoming resistance and being open to change. We all need support and accountability in taking sustainable action.

As part of the Take Your Health to Heart Challenge, you can participate in a series of live and interactive informational calls. Participants can ask questions and get in-the-moment coaching to overcome challenges in creating the change they want in their lives.

Get a dose of information, inspiration, and motivation from the comfort of your own home! Calls will be recorded and available for download for those who cannot attend live or who prefer to listen in their car or at the gym!

The Go Red Heart CheckUp is an interactive online assessment tool created by the American Heart Association to help women take charge of their heart-health.

The Go Red Heart CheckUp identifies your individual risk factors and provides personalized action plans that you can print and discuss with your doctor. Just answer the questions, and within seconds, you'll get an easy-to-read report that evaluates your risk of having a heart attack or other cardiovascular event within the next decade.

When you sign up for the Take Your Health to Heart Challenge you'll receive direct links to the Go Red Heart CheckUp as well as other resources we'll point you to.

Do you know that women lower their risk of heart disease when they're part of a community? In fact, women with fewer than four friends are twice as likely to die from heart disease.

Join our community and connect with other interesting women committed to making their heart health a priority! As more and more women join the Take Your Health to Heart Challenge, our online community will continue to grow more active and vibrant, and we'll be able to add more and more resources to help you along the way.

Are you ready to be one in a million?

Join the Take Your Health to Heart Challenge!

Don't wait another day to improve your health and the health of your family. Your life - and theirs - depends upon you taking action TODAY!

Yes! I'm ready to take the Challenge!
(And yes, it's free)

Even if you don't feel ready, I urge you to take the initiative while you are here and join anyway. Remember, the first step is the hardest, so once you join, it just gets easier! We are ready to welcome you with open arms.

Thanks for joining and taking a stand for your health! I look forward to hearing about your stories and sharing in your success!

Warmly,

Wendy Battles, MA, HHC
Heart Health Coach and Optimal Health Expert
Founder of the Take Your Health to Heart Challenge http://www.TakeYourHealthtoHeart.com
Creator of the Don't Worry, Get Healthy System http://www.DontWorryGetHealthy.com
Owner of Healthy Endeavors, LLC

The Take Your Health to Heart Challenge is pleased to support the American Heart Association's "Go Red for Women" campaign.