THE POWER OF WOMEN IN MEDIA WEBINAR
RAISING AWARENESS, EMPOWERING WOMEN AND SAVING LIVES
Each year stroke kills twice as many women as breast cancer - yet only 37% of women know their risk factors and symptoms - MAY IS STROKE AWARENESS MONTH -LEARN THAT STROKE IS PREVENTABLE, TREATABLE & BEATABLE
76 percent of U.S. adult women use Facebook, 30 percent of women check their social media outlets multiple times per day and 53 percent of women are likely to access deals for a particular brand or item through social media.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States. It kills more women than all cancers combined. Among Hispanic women, heart disease and cancer cause roughly the same number of deaths each year. For American Indian or Alaska Native and Asian or Pacific Islander women, heart disease is second only to cancer.
What Women Don't Know About Stroke Could Kill Them
Women do not think they are going to have a stroke. They think stroke is a man’s disease. Stroke is the third leading cause of death for women (in comparison, stroke is the fifth leading cause of death for men).
Taking birth control pills.
Being pregnant.
Using Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT),
Suffering from migraine headaches with aura.
Learn 11 symptoms of stroke that are unique to women.
Loss of consciousness or fainting
General weakness
Difficulty or shortness of breath
Confusion, unresponsiveness or disorientation
Sudden behavioral change
Agitation
Hallucination
Nausea or vomiting
Pain
Seizures
Hiccups
Because women live longer than men, the impact on their lives could be devastating.
Live alone when they have a stroke
Be more likely to live in a long term health care facility after a stroke
Have a worse recovery after stroke
While women are sharing details about their relationships, jobs, brand preferences, political affiliations and religious stance on social media, we are allowing 1 in 4 women to die by not sharing the warning signs of our leading cause of death heart disease and Stroke.
Use your social network to increase stroke awareness. Save the life of a family member, a friend and yourself!
Questions and answers that can save your life:
1- COMMON STROKE SYMPTOMS
2- UNIQUE SYMPTOMS IN WOMEN
3- UNIQUE RISK FACTORS IN WOMEN - Pregnancy, hormone replacement therapy
4- STROKE PREVENTION FOR WOMEN - What is F.A.S.T.
5- FOOD FOR MEDICINE
6 PHYSICAL ACTIVITY FOR MEDICINE -
7- JOIN American Stroke Association & Go Red For Women
THE POWER OF WOMEN IN MEDIA & STROKE AWARENESS
Thursday, May 26, 2016, 12:00 PM
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Montez Miller, Director, Social Media
is the former Director of Social Media, City of Detroit and has been a marketing manager for Island Black Music and a producer for Black Entertainment Television.
Kate Ferguson, MS, editor-in-chief, Real Health Magazine
The editor-in-chief of Real Health magazine, Kate Ferguson believes in the importance of healthy lifestyles. She has written extensively on fitness, diet/nutrition, relationships and family for the past 12 years for various lifestyle publications.
Dr. Catherine Katz, PhD, cuisinicity.com
Catherine Katz, Ph.D. is the founder of cuisinicity.com “Love the Food That Loves You Back”, a website where good food and good health come together in a way that is feasible for today’s busy families, as it has been for hers (Catherine and her husband, Nutrition expert,Dr David L. Katz, have 5 children!). Catherine’s recipes have been widely featured in national media, including ABC News, O Magazine, Eating Well, Prevention Magazine, Woman’s World, Fitness, Shape, and many others. She is the co-creator of the Nutrition Detectives™ food label literacy program, now in use by thousands of schools all over the world and has collaborated in the production of other health promotion programming, including the Unjunk Yourself® music video program.
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