American Heart Month 2022: Reclaim Your Rhythm!

Helping people create healthy habits that work best for their life, to give them the best chance at life.

People are tired. With everything that's happened in the last two?years, even those people who normally focus?on their health have lost their rhythm. CVD is still greatest health threat, but COVID?– and all the complexity of life because of it –?remains top of mind. People are experiencing lower physical and emotional wellness. And, heart disease deaths rose significantly?last?year.

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, deaths from heart disease?and stroke have risen significantly:?

• 1 in 5 people reported lower physical?wellness?
• 1 in 3 reported lower emotional?wellness
• Even people who had mild cases of?COVID-19?may have changes to their heart and brain health.?

Now’s the time to Reclaim Your Rhythm and take back control of your physical health and mental well-being. The American Heart Association is helping people create healthy habits that work best for their life, to give them the best chance at life. Incorporating music in your daily routine can help create healthy habits.

The American Heart Association offers many ways to reclaim your rhythm:

1. Mellow Out and Reduce Stress: Stress leads to unhealthy habits like overeating, physical inactivity, smoking and risk factors for heart disease and stroke like high blood pressure, and depression or anxiety.
2. Move to the Music: Physical activity is linked to lower risk of diseases, stronger bones and muscles, improved mental health and cognitive function and lower risk of depression.
3. Feed Your Soul, Rock Your Recipes: Eat meals together as a family for a chance to connect and decompress. Regular meals at home with family reduce stress, boost self-esteem and make the whole family feel connected.
4. Stay on Beat with Blood Pressure: High blood pressure is a leading cause and controllable risk factor for heart disease and stroke and can contribute to worse outcomes for people who contract COVID-19.
5. Keep the Beat! Learn Hands-Only CPR: When a person has a cardiac arrest, survival depends on immediately receiving CPR from someone nearby.
6. Help your community reclaim their rhythm by learning the 2 simple steps of Hands-Only CPR: Call 911, then press hard and fast in the center of the chest.

?As part of a?collaboration with Pandora, the American Heart Association?will?have a station takeover?of their highest traffic channel, Cardio-Dance. There will be three Reclaim Your Rhythm modes?featuring music curated by Pandora. The modes will feature anthems of the 2022 Go Red for Women Real Women?Class, celebrated Black artists, and music you can dance to, groove to, and keep the beat for Hands-Only CPR.