Laura Bush's #1 Wisdom Tip To Help Women Prevent Heart Disease: Walk At Least 3 Times A Week

First Lady Laura Bush is on a mission to save America's women from their number-one killer: heart disease.

Working closely with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, which is part of the NIH, the National Institutes of Health, the First Lady is educating woman on the best ways to prevent heart disease.

Her health wisdom: make an effort to walk a few times a week and get more exercise.

Laura Bush also advises women to go to your doctor; get your blood pressure taken; make sure you have a diabetes check; find out what your cholesterol is; and then try to have a heart-healthy diet.

"If you just start with the exercise part, once you just make yourself go for a walk a few days a week, you find out that you feel better, and then it's a little bit easier to have a little bit less food, or to pick lower calorie foods and better foods that are better for you. But I really think the exercise piece is the way to get a good start." says the First Lady.

To learn more about woman and heart disease and the Red Dress Project and The Heart Truth Campaign visit the official Web site here.