Shop Healthy Ones & Help the Breast Cancer Research Foundation

This is a sponsored post. I support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation on behalf of Healthy Ones. All opinions are my own.

Every 2 minutes in the U.S. a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer. One in eight women will be diagnosed with the disease in her lifetime, and about 40,000 women in the U.S. die each year from it, according to the American Cancer Society. Those are some pretty scary statistics, and that is not even including the men that get breast cancer. Yes men can get breast cancer, even though it is 100 times less common for men.

I have had two women in my family suffer with breast cancer. My step mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was just 18 years old. I remember her telling me how they wanted her to get a mastectomy as part of her treatment but she refused since she was so young and luckily beat it. The other woman who had breast cancer was my husband’s grandmother.

Grandma K was diagnosed with breast cancer just last year. She was fine and then she wasn’t, it was that fast for her. She had stomach cancer ten years ago and then she was diagnosed with breast cancer as her next cancer. She went through chemotherapy but it really kicked her butt this next time around. We didn’t see her that much that whole year she was treated and when we did, it was hard. I never knew what to say or how to help her. She did beat breast cancer but then she was diagnosed with liver cancer only to decide not to fight through with chemotherapy again. She passed away just a few weeks ago now but she is no longer suffering.

Needless to say breast cancer scares me and makes me realize how it can happen to anyone. As a mother of a daughter too I worry about her and what would happen to my family if something happened to me.

Well with October being Breast Cancer Awareness month, Healthy Ones has partnered with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) yet again in an effort to raise awareness and funds to support breast cancer research. Since 2012, Healthy Ones has raised $170,000 for the BCRF.

How is Healthy Ones helping?

Healthy Ones is donating a portion of October sales to the BCRF. For every 1 pound of Healthy Ones deli meat sold, $0.05 will be donated (up to $50,000.)

How can you help?

Shop for Healthy Ones at your local retailer. Not only will you pick up some yummy lunchmeat but your purchase will help support the more than 240 scientists on 5 continents as they pursue research to make a difference.

Find Healthy Ones at a retailer near you. Look for containers like the one below which remind shoppers to “Think Pink.”

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