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Dr. Nieca Goldberg is the founder of the Women’s Heart Program, the only cardiac rehabilitation and prevention center for women in New York City. She’s also the author of Women Are Not Small Men: Life Saving Strategies for Preventing and Healing Heart Disease and a recently released book called Dr. Nieca Goldberg’s Complete Guide to Women’s Health.  We welcome her to Daily Cents as a guest blogger for National Women's Health Week.

A great way to celebrate women’s health week is to take care of your heart. After all, Heart Disease is the leading killer of women. One out of three women will die of heart disease yearly and one in five women live with it every day. Over the last five years women’s heart disease has gotten a lot of publicity: the American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women Campaign, and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute’s Heart Truth Campaign and women’s overall awareness of the risks for heart disease. Although more than 50% of women know it is the leading killer of women, only 26% of those women think that it will happen to them. The women at greatest risk, African American women and Latinas, are the ones least likely to be aware of their risks. Obviously the campaigns are not reaching them.

How do you trade the things you don’t want for things you do? As in how do you exchange that set of very expensive presidential biographies you bought for your now ex-boyfriend to inspire him to read? It’s not like you need a second set of them.

To purge yourself of the bad memories they conjure up, go to SwapTree.com, a site where you can trade books, music, movies, and videos that you don’t want, for the books, CDs, DVDs, videos that you do want.