Mrs Powell said the campaign aimed to raise awareness of heart disease as the number one killer of Australian women.
“I attended the Go Red For Women event at Parliament House to celebrate its launch and learned that heart disease kills four times as many women as breast cancer and almost as many women as men, yet research has found that most people still assume heart disease only affects older men.”
As part of this year’s Go Red for Women campaign the Heart Foundation will stage a Healthy Heart Challenge as a practical way for women to improve their health.
The challenge starts on June 1 and is a free 10-week challenge designed to provide women with realistic steps to build changes into their lifestyle to improve their heart health in the long-term.
On registering, participants will be asked to select one of six key goals and they will be supported to achieve this through weekly tips and information to keep them motivated.
The Heart Foundation’s target is to have 20,000 Australian women sign up nationwide.
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