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Heart attack survivor raising awareness on heart health through hula-hooping

DAYTON — A heart attack survivor is using her experience to educate and give back to those dealing with heart disease in an usual way–hula hooping.

Dark and early, Tasya Lacy is out doing what she loves most, hula hooping with her crew of “hoopers.”

Lacy’s journey here wasn’t an easy one. Six years ago, she suffered a massive heart attack that she said happened while she was hula hooping.

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“I realized the only reason I was able to survive that heart attack is because I was hula hooping,” Lacy said.

Now recovered, hula hooping has new meaning in her life, and helping her to spread the importance of heart health.

She’s doing it through her annual “Hoop for your Heart” event. Lacy said she had been hula hooping for 3 hours when she had her heart attack.

Every year, the event raises money for the American Heart Association, but this year, it will go to 6-year-old Savannah, who was diagnosed with cardiac rhythmic myopathy and recently had a heart transplant.

Saturday, it’s all about being active at the Lohrey Center in Dayton.

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“We don’t have to die from heart attacks…The biggest thing is to be aware,” Lacy said.

There will be Zumba, trap yoga, silver sneakers, a nutritionist and health screenings to help get people up and moving to a healthier heart.

“I’m living proof, if I hadn’t been working out and hula hooping, that widow maker heart attack would have left my husband a widow,” Lacy said.

The event runs from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. The hoop-a-thon will be from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m., and everything is free.






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