Toni Braxton on surviving heart disease
Posted on Feb 8th 2008 8:00AM by Jacki Donaldson
Grammy winner Toni Braxton tells PEOPLE magazine that she is this year's spokesperson for the American Heart Association. It's not just her celebrity that landed her the job, though. It's the fact that she's a living, breathing survivor of heart disease.Helping to kick off February's National Heart Month, the 40-year-old Braxton says, ""I have heart disease, and I found out about five or four years ago." Exhaustion is what tipped her off. A trip to see her doctor confirmed that heart disease was the culprit, specifically pericarditis -- an inflammation of the sac surrounding the heart -- and hypertension too.
Braxton is fighting her disease by making lifestyle and diet changes.
"I eat relatively well, but sometimes having those pizzas and burgers late at night -- I had to change that," she says.













