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Your Diet Can Affect Your Stroke Risk

A way to protect yourself from strokes is a method that Goldilocks might support: Don’t eat too many calories or too few calories, but eat just the right amount.

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Your diet can affect your stroke risk

A way to protect yourself from strokes is a method that Goldilocks might support: Don’t eat too many calories or too few calories, but eat just the right amount.

In the new issue of The Lancet Neurology, a stroke expert takes a close look at how our diets can affect our likelihood of having a stroke.

Given that an American has a stroke every 40 seconds, it’s worth our while to try to protect ourselves from this threat.

Eating too little increases a person’s risk of stroke later in life, but experts aren’t sure why. Eating too much, which is a more common issue in America, also raises a person’s risk. This is probably because overeating encourages obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes.

One way of eating that might help protect you from strokes is the DASH diet. This emphasizes fruits and vegetables, low-fat dairy, whole grains and fish. Another eating style that may stop a stroke from striking you is the Mediterranean Diet. It also puts a priority on fruits, vegetables, whole grains and fish, as well as olive oil as a main source of fat.

Whichever way you choose, make sure you’re eating enough, but not so much that you put on excess pounds.

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