{"id":25480,"date":"2019-01-25T09:57:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=25480"},"modified":"2019-01-25T09:57:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T14:57:02","slug":"national-wear-red-day-at-usps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/01\/25\/national-wear-red-day-at-usps\/","title":{"rendered":"National Wear Red Day At USPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25481\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wear-Red-Day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wear-Red-Day.jpg 400w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wear-Red-Day-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wear-Red-Day-86x54.jpg 86w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wear-Red-Day-120x74.jpg 120w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Wear-Red-Day-378x237.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 1\/24\/19 &#8211; The Postal Service is inviting employees to participate in National Wear Red Day, which is held annually to raise awareness of heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s National Wear Red Day is Friday, Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, accounting for approximately 1 in every 4 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>Several medical conditions and lifestyle choices can increase your risk of heart disease, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Diabetes<\/li>\n<li>Obesity<\/li>\n<li>High blood pressure<\/li>\n<li>High saturated fats and cholesterol in your diet<\/li>\n<li>Excessive alcohol use<\/li>\n<li>Tobacco use<\/li>\n<li>A family history of heart disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of these risks can be managed with proper diet and exercise.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/liteblue.usps.gov\/wellness3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wellness LiteBlue page<\/a><\/em>\u00a0has more information on National Wear Red Day.<\/p>\n<p>Employees who participate are required to follow their facility\u2019s dress code or the regulations detailed in the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/about.usps.com\/manuals\/elm\/elm.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Employee Labor Relations Manual<\/a><\/em>, Section 930, Uniform Program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USPS News Link &#8211; 1\/24\/19 &#8211; The Postal Service is inviting employees to participate in National Wear Red Day, which is held annually to raise awareness of heart disease. This year\u2019s National Wear Red Day is Friday, Feb. 1. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25482,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25480\/revisions\/25482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}