Seafood group joins heart health program

Seafood group joins heart health program

A nonprofit created to promote seafood as part of a healthy diet is partnering with foundations which promote heart health in a public service message which will launch nationally this week
Update: (2/8/2014)

Seafood Nutrition Partnership is collaborating with the National Institute of Health's The Heart Truth program and Sister to Sister: The Women's Heart Health Foundation, to create the message, "Eat Seafood Twice a Week for Heart Health."

The message will launch throughout the United States on 7 February, to coincide with American Heart Month and National Wear Red Day, when people across the United States are asked to wear red to call attention to women's heart health.

"With statistics showing that heart disease is the Number 1 killer of women, and with multiple scientific studies concluding that eating at least two servings per week of a variety of seafood is associated with fewer deaths from heart disease, we believe this message is very timely," said Linda Cornish, executive director of the Seafood Nutrition Partnership.

The full-page message will appear within the Heart Health Matters magazine insert from the American Heart Association (AHA), in 10 newspapers: TheAtlanta Journal-Constitution, TheBaltimore Sun, TheBoston Globe, TheChicago Tribune, TheDallas Morning News, TheHouston Chronicle, TheLos Angeles Times, TheMiami Herald, TheNew York Daily News, ThePhiladelphia Inquirer, and TheSan Jose Mercury News. The message will also appear on the AHA website Heart.org, and at Seafood Nutrition.org/heart.