CHICAGO (WLS) -- A campaign to raise aware about heart disease in women is underway.

A Chicago woman is making it her mission to share her experience so that others will pay attention to their hearts.

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Fresh veggies take Javon Nicholas back to her youth, eating from her grandmother's garden in Chatham.

Nicholas never imagined at 35 years old she would have four blocked arteries in need of emergency open-heart surgery.

"It caught me off-guard; I was not prepared for it at all," Nicholas said. "On the outside, I appeared young. But on the inside I'm like nana."

As she recovered, she focused her culinary training on heart-healthy comfort foods.

She is now a wholesaler of frozen egg rolls. Her business is called Egg Rolls Etc.

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