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We shop, Therefore we Cure
The number one killer of women is not breast cancer. It's not lung cancer either (although lung cancer is the number one cancer killer of women in America). The number one killer of women, overall, is heart disease. Heart disease kills ten times more women every year than breast cancer.
I guess I was dimly aware that February is heart disease awareness month, and that it's color is red, like valentines and hearts that aren't covered in sticky, gooey killer plaque. But that's about all I knew. I didn't know, for example, that the heart disease symbol for women is a pin shaped like a red dress, a sexy, capped-sleeved number with a scooped neckline. Personally, I'd say if you can wear a hot little red dress like that without fear of exposing a pair of flapping bingo wings, you probably aren't at high risk for a heart attack, but maybe that's just me showing my ignorance.
Maybe that's just me saying to myself, wow, the fashion industry came up with this dress symbol, and it's sort of designed for skinny models, and wouldn't many of them drastically lower their risk of heart attack if they'd just stop snorting cocaine, and smoking cigarettes for dinner?
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