You Gotta' Have Heart



Mom with Bob and Susan,
her sister, Laura and husband, Dennis



YOU GOTTA' HAVE HEART

You gotta‘ have heart – as the song lyric sings true to heart!  During February’s “Wear Red” promotion the National Heart Association has the heart to alert and invite women to join in the campaign to fight heart disease, informing that heart cardiovascular disease is the #1 killer of all Americans – not just men.  The association lead the way women should go to find effective motivation and evoke awareness.

Alas, men and women are equal in heart disease.  Often women patients are misdiagnosed or overlooked for testing for heart disease due to heart disease being considered primarily a man’s disease. Also, medical news, media reports or health care coverage is often preferential to male health care (ex:  Viagra inclusive coverage onto most health plans, whereas birth control remained excluded.)  The medical industry should treat women and men as equal (not separate but equal.) Sexism ought to be ban in health care coverage; for it isn’t in heart disease.

To maintain a healthy lifestyle of the right foods and right choices in life is no mean feat for any of use.  Women need to prepare for the inevitable journey in age.  The lost of wellness and vitality may be alleviated by the change-over to heart disease-proof foods into their diets.  Healthy food for a healthy heart! 

I personally adopted a vegetarian diet without any regret or deprivation, given the award of a slim size 6 figure, youthful appearance and good health.   It’s all worth it.  My diet consists of disease proof heart friendly foods such as vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, green salad) and protein substitutes (tofu, soymilk.)

A healthy diet and lifestyle may be attributed to the avoidance of heart disease, high blood pressure and aid to monitor cholesterol, metabolism, and digestion tract. Inasmuch as no lifestyle change or disease proof food is intended to replace medical check-ups and prescribed medication, they are essentially supplemental to a regular medical health regimen.

Go women and follow the advice of the National Heart Association of healthy guidelines, diet, and check-ups to ensure a healthy heart.  For Valentine’s Day this February take care of your heart – after all you gotta have heart. The beat goes on! 

Susan Marie Davniero

WRAP AROUND AN ANKLE BAND

Many people suffer with u unexplainable leg rashes with no visible cure. I had very red rash blotches all over my lower legs with no other symptoms. Even my husband noticed and asked what the red rash was? I didn’t know.

I am thin, a vegetarian and healthy. However, I seem to retain water from my vegetarian diet, so I assume the red blotches were water retention because I felt fine and was in good health.

My ankles seem to hurt and felt better when I wrap a band around. So I brought the ankle bands at my local Dollar Tree Store and wore the bands around the house and sleeping. Nothing fancy or expensive is necessary.

Within a few days my entire rash blotches cleared and faded away! My legs are normal and beautiful again. I suggest others try it because it works – you’ll be on your feet again kicking up your heels – the party isn’t over yet.

Susan Marie Davniero

WEAR YOUR HEART ON YOUR SLEEVE
 

You gotta’ have heart – during February’s “Wear Red” promotion the National Heart Association has the heart to alert and invite women to join in the campaign to fight heart disease as heart cardiovascular disease is the #1 fatality of women. 

The association is leading the way women should go to find effective motivation and awareness. Essentially, women need to prepare for the inevitable journey in age.  Adopt a healthy heart diet and lifestyle. If not now – when? Later may be too late.

Go women and wear red while following the advice of the national heart Association for healthy guidelines, diet, exercise and check-ups to ensure a healthy heart.  For Valentines Day this February take care of your heart – after all, you gotta’ have heart.  The beat goes on!

Susan Marie Davniero

Susan with First Car Vega

THE DRIVE OF MY LIFE

My trip of a lifetimel began when I drove my first car taking me on the drive of my life. I drove on down the road in my new sporty 1974 red Vega hatchback. The wheels on the road fueled me to travel on as I sang along with the radio. I was young, willing and driven raring to go entering the car race of my life.

I took in the sights from the road to entertain new ideas and raise my awareness to explore the streets of Long Island. Frankly, I got my street smarts along the way. I took to the road in all directions. The roads all lay before me. There was no end in sight to my trip traveling onward.

At the crossroads in life there has been a wrong turn, a bump in the road or detour along the way. Yet, I was able to ride out the storms. I felt I was accompanied by St. Christopher, the patron saint of travel, as my guardian angel.

Like a looking glass in the car’s rearview mirror I can see my past chasing me towards today. It’s been a long trip. There’s no turning back. My life today is a recycled model of that first car with the repairs and bodywork tainted by age.

As the calendar marked the passage of years since my first car, I can look back charting the map of a life’s journey. My first car wasn’t my last for there has been many roads taken since in other cars. Yet I shall always remember my first. The first step is often the hardest.

There is a need to distance from a time when a car was chosen simply by “how cute it was” to looking under the hood for inner value, mechanics and drive. Essentially, I learned that it’s what is under the hood that matters most (in cars and people.) There are no short cuts in life. It’s been a trip of lifetime learning along the way.

What is owed to the story a life? Beyond what memory allows, the mileage is storage of the roads traveled.
The story may have begun with the Vega, yet it didn’t end there. There are still places to go and things to see. I’m not out of gas yet. The past roads may be out of sight but not out of mind. Today I can drive by the roads of yesterday to drive for success. I intend to win the race. I’m going all the way on the drive of my life.

Throughout the seasons of my life I have driven onward. Today I am a seasoned traveler. All roads led to today. I have arrived.

Sincerely

Susan Marie Davniero

 

 

THE ROAD TO BEAUTY

 

 

Take the road to beauty. Pack your beauty for the trip of a lifetime. Bring with you a healthy road map. You’ll get a lot of mileage by a healthy diet, exercise and active life style to make the trip.

There’s no speed limit to reach beauty. At every age speeding by you can still get there. You’re exercising speeds up energy and vitality to fuel the journey.

Go with the curves in the road avoid steering off course crossing over into the ditch of bad habits. Highly processed foods strip the paint body of life. Don’t stop for junk food which clogs up the body’s engine. Eat junk and become a junk body that stalls out.

Avoid the bumps of neglect, abuse and negativity along the way. Stay in gear, steady and positive. By pass the detour down the road to smoking and drinking that cross lines. Stay in your lane straight, sober and safe. Get your street smarts along the way to get sleep, check-ups, diet and exercise plan to stay the course. Ride out the storms of stress stopping to take breaks at rest stops.

 

Take the healthy road, bear to the right direction down the road. It’s the only way to go. Love yourself to take care of yourself. Get the check up for maintenance for a tune-up with a beauty routine. Brush and floss teeth for a shiny bumper, condition hair for a glossy finish, makeup for a touch up paint job.

A good healthy diet feeds your body. The days of reckless driving down the path of binging and starving are over. Yet, age doesn’t have to wither beauty. Find your own way because every woman is beautiful in her own way.

After years of driving beauty takes its toll. Yet, by living a healthy lifestyle with diet, exercise and beauty regime you’ll look like a new model. Go full speed ahead. The road to beauty never has to reach a dead end. Be the best you can be, because girlfriend you’re beautiful!

Susan Marie Davniero



Valentine Cat - Drawn by Susan Marie Davniero



 

 

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