It’s National Women’s Health Week, a reminder for women to make their health and wellness a priority.
"The main mission is to get us a community to understand that diabetes and heart attacks, strokes," said Joyt Gray."That's the #1 killer for African-American women."
Before too long, Wyntress Ware, a nurse and former business owner, joined the group, too. Ware is a mall walker and practices yoga but GirlTrek brings in another element. "I saw this blue, these ladies in blue, and I was like, 'GirlTrek!'," Miller said. She'd previously been part of groups in her home state of Mississippi and Memphis where she went to college and was ready to be part of the group again.
"Now that I know that if walk enough, I can eat the things I want in moderation and still lose weight. So, I'm 11 pounds down. I'm motivated," said Haines.GirlTrek started in 2010 with two friends in Los Angeles. The website describes GirlTrek as"a global movement of Black women leveraging the historic legacy of walking and the power of self-care as a pathway to heal and transform our lives.
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