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Walking to Save Your Heart

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Friday, August 16, 2013   

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – People will get a chance to improve their health and possibly help others at the Eastern South Dakota Heart Walk Saturday in Sioux Falls.

Chrissy Meyer, spokeswoman for the American Heart Association of South Dakota, says it's a chance to help fund further research into heart disease.

"The dollars that we raise though the heart walk really help us to fund our life-saving mission and fund projects that help us achieve our goal of reducing heart disease in the state of South Dakota," she explains.

The walk begins at Falls Park Saturday morning, and registration is free.

Meyer says the heart walk also is a chance to show people how easy it is to improve their own health.

"We are out there preaching every day that we want people to move more,” she adds. “And there is a great way to do that if you just get out and walk 30 minutes a day.

“And so that's the other piece of what the heart walk is about, it's to educate people that the path to good heart health is not necessarily through running marathons or putting yourself through a lot of work. It can be as easy as getting out and going for a walk."

Meyer says the South Dakota heart association is expecting a pretty big turnout to take part in the walk.

"We are thinking we'll probably have 2,500 to 3,000 people out there for the day,” she says. “And many of those will be with the 60 companies that have signed on and pledged to kind of lead the way and make heart health their business here in the eastern part of South Dakota. "

Meyer adds anyone can join, and walkups are encouraged to take part.





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