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Students dress in red for hearts
Samie Hartley
Issue date: 2/19/07 Section: News
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In honor of American Heart Month, students from different organizations on campus will come together tonight for a multicultural fashion show to create awareness for women's heart disease.
Daphne Purisima, a San Jose State University Peer Health Education team leader, said the third annual Red Dress Campaign will feature students from clubs, fraternities and sororities dressed in red attire and will parade through the Student Union's Loma Prieta Ballroom at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
"The event is a fashion show with members from different cultural groups on campus fashioning off traditional and modern dress in their respected groups," Purisima said. "The fashion show illustrates that heart disease affects all women of all cultures."
The purpose of the event is to spread awareness about women's heart disease, the number one killer of women, Purisima said.
"Students can walk away being more health conscious about themselves and pass the information on to their mothers, sisters, grandmothers, aunts, wives or friends and help raise funds for a good cause," Purisima said.
During the fashion show, prizes, such as an iPod Shuffle, a Sony PSP and a video iPod, will be raffled off. Raffle tickets are $2 and all proceeds will be donated to the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women campaign.
"All funds donated to Go Red For Women support the life-saving research and educational programs of the American Heart Association in an effort to raise awareness and reduce the impact of heart disease in women," said Angie Knauf, American Heart Association San Jose division senior corporate events director.
Meghan Kinoshita, communications director for the San Jose division of the American Heart Association, said more than 480,000 women die of cardiovascular disease every year, which is about one woman every minute, but only 13 percent of women think of heart disease as a threat.
Risk factors for heart disease include increasing age, smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity and physical inactivity, Kinoshita said.
Daphne Purisima, a San Jose State University Peer Health Education team leader, said the third annual Red Dress Campaign will feature students from clubs, fraternities and sororities dressed in red attire and will parade through the Student Union's Loma Prieta Ballroom at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
"The event is a fashion show with members from different cultural groups on campus fashioning off traditional and modern dress in their respected groups," Purisima said. "The fashion show illustrates that heart disease affects all women of all cultures."
The purpose of the event is to spread awareness about women's heart disease, the number one killer of women, Purisima said.
"Students can walk away being more health conscious about themselves and pass the information on to their mothers, sisters, grandmothers, aunts, wives or friends and help raise funds for a good cause," Purisima said.
During the fashion show, prizes, such as an iPod Shuffle, a Sony PSP and a video iPod, will be raffled off. Raffle tickets are $2 and all proceeds will be donated to the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women campaign.
"All funds donated to Go Red For Women support the life-saving research and educational programs of the American Heart Association in an effort to raise awareness and reduce the impact of heart disease in women," said Angie Knauf, American Heart Association San Jose division senior corporate events director.
Meghan Kinoshita, communications director for the San Jose division of the American Heart Association, said more than 480,000 women die of cardiovascular disease every year, which is about one woman every minute, but only 13 percent of women think of heart disease as a threat.
Risk factors for heart disease include increasing age, smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, obesity and physical inactivity, Kinoshita said.
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