INTERVIEW IDEA / BOOK REVIEW

CONTACT: Mellanie True Hills, 940-466-9898

WHO: Mellanie True Hills, heart disease survivor and author of A Woman’s Guide to Saving Her Own Life: The Heart Program for Health and Longevity, is also the founder and CEO of the American Foundation for Women’s Health, a non-profit organization dedicated to education and awareness about women’s health issues. She is also very involved with the American Heart Association.

WHEN: February is National Heart Month and Hills is available for interviews. She has numerous articles, tips and charts available for reprint and sidebars, as well.

WOULDN’T YOUR AUDIENCE LIKE TO KNOW:

• That there is a connection between heart disease and stress, including holiday stress and post-holiday stress/ winter blahs, and how to avoid this
• How they can incorporate exercise into their daily routine during the colder months
• How to start the New Year off right – plans for your healthy new year
• That not getting enough sleep can have a direct impact on your heart
• How to deal with the financial impact of a chronic illness
• That the infection brought on by cold/flu season can actually pre-dispose a woman to heart disease

DALLAS —Heart disease kills more women than men in the U.S. and has for 20 years. How could we possibly lose almost half a million women each year in the U.S. to cardiovascular diseases (heart disease and stroke) and not hear more about it? The American Heart Association also reports that heart disease and stroke account for 40% of women’s deaths. That’s almost 1,400 women every day—1 every minute—10 times as many as we lose to breast cancer, and 2 times as many as to all cancers combined.  Forty percent of us – 2 of every 5 women – will get, and die from, cardiovascular disease. If you have a family history of heart disease, your risk is even higher.

Hills can discuss:

• What a heart attack is and why it is happening at younger ages than ever before
• Why we lose more women than men to heart attacks
• Why women are more vulnerable to workplace stress
• The four main symptoms of a woman’s heart attack & how they differ from men’s
• Stroke symptoms
• An effective health regimen for women and how people can create a plan they can stick to

A Woman’s Guide to Saving Her Own Life is Hills’ story and a workbook designed to guide readers through the process of making permanent and life-saving changes. Awards include Best Books 2006 for Women's Health from USA Book News and Readers Preference Editor's Choice Award for 2005.  It was a nominee for Quills Debut Author of the Year.

For more information or to interview Mellanie True Hills, or to request a review copy of her book, please contact her at 940-466-9898 or www.MellanieHills.com