Blog 10 What factors can influence women to adopt healthier lifestyles and engage in preventive behaviors so as to reduce their risks of CD and Cancer

Women live their lives for their husbands and children. They tend to forget to take care of their selves while taking care of the family. Risk factors for cardiovascular disease include age, genetics, race, obesity, smoking, hypertension, elevated cholesterol, sedentary lifestyle, diabetes, and menopause. Women need to change their behaviors in obesity, smoking, and a sedentary lifestyle. These are items in which we have control over by using diet and exercise, stop smoking, and continual exercise. Race and genetics is something we do not have control over. Racial differences include Blacks having a higher rate of high blood pressure with more complications. You can look at it as it is predetermined in your hereditary. Mexican American are predestined to be more obese. Lifestyle changes in diet and exercise are the best steps to a healthier lifestyle for women. Make sure you take time for yourself. I am definitely one of those individuals who forget to put myself first sometimes.