Being Heart Healthy and Stroke Free has several meanings: Preventing heart disease, heart attack or a stroke. Reducing the risk of a second heart attack or stroke. Improving the quality of life and managing complications that can occur with heart disease, heart attack, or stroke. Everyone is at risk for heart disease, heart attack and stroke, but some people are at higher risk than others. It is important to know the risks! It is possible to reduce the risk of heart disease,

It is difficult for those of us who live and work in middle-class Alabama to recognize the challenges faced by almost one-fifth of our state’s population. Yet, according to the 2017 data released by Alabama Possible, almost 900,000 Alabamians, together with 300,000 of their children, live in situational or generational poverty. [1 ]In fact, Alabama is ranked as the sixth poorest state in the United States. To remove our blinders, sociology expert Ruby Payne, PhD explains the