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February is heart month, so it is a great time to try to add any of these items to your grocery basket to help improve your heart health:

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February is National Heart Awareness Month. Providence Hood River Heart & Vascular Institute and the American Heart Association remind you that heart disease is still the number one killer in the United States.

Heart disease is America's number one killer for both men and women; each year about 1.1 million people suffer a heart attack. About 460,000 of those heart attacks are fatal, so it is important to recognize the warning signs of a heart attack.