Nutrition: Diet's role in stroke prevention

[OctoberRed]

May is the 32nd annual Stroke Awareness Month. It was created in 1989 by the American Heart Association to promote stroke awareness and reduce the overall rate of stroke in the U.S.

Nutrition can play a vital role in the prevention of cardiovascular events such as experiencing a heart attack, congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease and stroke. By staying informed on the risks associated with stroke and the preventative measures you can take to lessen your odds, you may find how just a few lifestyle changes can end up benefiting you for a lifetime!

The AHA states that the following factors can increase the chances of having a stroke:

High blood pressure
High cholesterol
Heart disease
Diabetes
Tobacco use
Consuming an unhealthy diet (high in saturated fats, trans fats and cholesterol)
Excessive alcohol intake
Obesity
Physical inactivity

Whether you may have a preexisting health condition or you’re just looking to better your cardiovascular health, consuming a healthy diet is one of the easiest modifiable factors of stroke prevention you can make.

So what’s nutrition’s role? By limiting your consumption of saturated fats, trans fats and cholesterol, you can improve your lipid panel while lessening your chance of plaque buildup. Try to consume more lean meats, reduced or nonfat dairy products, and plant-based oils such as olive, canola and avocado oil. Poultry and fish are great lean-meat options. If you choose to eat red meat, round and loin cuts tend to be the leanest.

Along with consuming healthier fats, decreasing your daily intake of sodium can also help reduce the risk of stroke by better controlling your blood pressure. Avoid using salt excessively when cooking and baking; opt for sodium-free or reduced-sodium seasonings. Be mindful about convenience and processed foods. These food items don’t need to be altogether avoided; however they typically rack up a majority of our daily sodium needs, plus some. Look for food items that have 140 mg or less sodium per serving, and move that salt shaker to the back of the cupboard.

Lastly, don’t forget about your fruits and vegetables. Higher fruit and vegetable intake has been associated with lower risks of stroke, says the AHA. Eat the rainbow! The more colors you fill your plate with, the more nutrients you offer your body. Dietary guidelines recommend adults consume 2-3 cups of fruits and vegetables daily.

There are many fun spring recipes you can find online to incorporate more fruits and veggies into your routine while improving your cardiovascular health! The following recipe is an easy way to incorporate lean meat and delicious vegetables while getting to fire up the grill this spring and summer.

[TheBoxGod]

Lets see yesterday I ate, eggs, bacon, beans, banana, chicken, olives, whey protein shake, corn, peas, rice, ground beef, spinach, carrots, pistachios and I am in a cut.

and this is how I think people should eat, a lot of everything, nothing really in excess except the protein imo, and salt is not your enemy our body needs salt too little salt and the effects can be life-threatening as well, what I tell people is... just don't overdo it with the salt but always make sure you're drinking a lot of water every day and with drinking alot of water you want to make sure you are getting enough "electrolytes" i.e. Magnesium, Sodium (salt), Chloride, Potassium etc and you need them especially if you sweat alot because you deplete yourself of those "electrolytes", good thing is that you will start to feel a lil off than normal if you depleting yourself and let that be a signal to you that you need to drink a sports drink or something to replenlish your minerals "electrolytes".

Also eating lean can be cheap too, take ground beef for instance, you can buy the 73 lean / 27 fat version, cook it, drain it in a strainer, and then rinse it in warm water and it will lose a majority of its fat something like .......... let me pull out my notes (I have all this info saved, its what i do for a living pretty much)....

(remind you this is the conservative estimate)
Draining the fat reduces the fat content by 31%
Rinsing with water reduce the fat content by another 25%
Also remember that Fat has 9 calories per gram so you are also reducing the calories by a large amount, and are not changing the protein profile at all I this process. And you cant really taste any difference. WIN WIN in my book.

However all this is for nothing if you do not have a healthy lifestyle. Meaning; if your still drinking alot of alcohol, smoking, doing drugs than the damage that does is always going to outdo any good your diet can do. Also exercise every day, theirs is only benefits to exercise so do it, you look good, feel good, sex life improves, health improves, only positives so do it... that is if you care about yourself if don't than don't.

[Zaroku]

Yet hhonny and I regular level do an Atkins duet??

coctors in Japan role my wife. & insuran
Please do Atkins and vegetables

[OctoberRed]

Yet hhonny and I regular level do an Atkins duet??

coctors in Japan role my wife. & insuran
Please do Atkins and vegetables

Just What Killed the Diet Doctor, And What Keeps the Issue Alive?

By N.r. Kleinfield

So was he fat or svelte or maybe a tad chubby? Was it really a slip on the ice or could it have been something else -- even, dare it be said, something he ate?

Now there are confidential documents passed to the news media, and still more dueling authorities, not to mention the ticklish matter of the mayor and the doctor's widow and the promised steak dinner.

Oh the mess goes on and on like a seven-course meal.

Dr. Robert Atkins, the diet doctor who popularized the notion that dieters could eat fat and lose weight, has been dead for nearly a year, after he fell on some ice and hit his head last April, yet indecorous questions about his health and, yes, his weight persist, and the mayor, who hasn't even been on the diet, can't seem to stay out of it all.

The latest twist is the publication in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday of details from Dr. Atkins's confidential medical report. The report concludes that Dr. Atkins, 72, had a history of heart attack and congestive heart failure and notes that he weighed 258 pounds at death.

The release of the report by New York City officials outraged the Atkins people. It also annoyed Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, already on delicate ground in Atkins matters. ''What happened is we made a mistake,'' said Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the city medical examiner's office. Late last year, the office received a request for Dr. Atkins's medical report from Dr. Richard Fleming of the Fleming Heart and Health Institute in Omaha, Neb. On Dec. 22, a member of the records staff mistakenly mailed it out.

While cause and manner of death are public information, medical reports are not. They are to be shared only with the next of kin or anyone authorized by the next of kin, physicians or medical facilities that treated the deceased, or state or federal facilities that legitimately need it.

So it was fine to tell the world that the cause of death was ''blunt impact injury of head with epidural hematoma'' because Dr. Atkins ''fell from upright position,'' but that's it.

Dr. Fleming was not a treating physician, and, according to Ms. Borakove, did not say he was. A critic of the Atkins diet, he passed the report on to a group he was acquainted with, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which promotes a vegetarian diet and denounces the Atkins plan.

The Physicians Committee gave the report to The Journal. Ms. Borakove said that a television station in New York apparently also has a copy, because it called her last week. (The Physicians Committee furnished a copy yesterday to The Times.)

The report, based on an external examination of the body and some hospital information, said Dr. Atkins had a history of heart attack, congestive heart failure and hypertension. His wife objected to an autopsy, Ms. Borakove said, so none was performed.

Responses to the report's release came quickly from Atkins quarters. Dr. Stuart Trager, chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council, a group of physicians who work as consultants to the Atkins organization, said the Journal article ''was based on incomplete personal medical records that were illegally delivered to the newspaper in violation of federal law.''

He said Dr. Atkins did not have a history of heart attack, nor was he obese. He said that Dr. Atkins weighed 195 pounds the day after he entered the hospital following his fall, and that he gained 63 pounds from fluid retention during the nine days he was in a coma before he died. Dr. Trager said Dr. Atkins did have cardiomyopathy, a heart muscle disease that was probably caused by a virus, not by what he ate. While Dr. Atkins had an episode of cardiac arrest the year before his death, Dr. Trager said, he was unaware that he had had any history of heart attack.

''Old age was not particularly kind to him,'' he said. ''This cardiomyopathy was a real bugger. But the physicians who were treating him had no reason to think it was diet related.''

Veronica Atkins, Dr. Atkins's widow, issued a statement yesterday expressing her horror at ''unscrupulous individuals'' who ''continue to twist and pervert the truth.'' She added, ''I have been assured by my husband's physicians that my husband's health problems late in life were completely unrelated to his diet or any diet.''

Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, stressed that it was not Dr. Atkins's health alone that interested him. ''I'm concerned about the Atkins machine trying to play the card that Atkins was healthy and thin into old age,'' he said. In his view, the Atkins diet ''is an imminent public health threat.''

Dr. John McDougall, a member of the Physicians Committee and an internist who had debated Dr. Atkins, said there was no doubt that Dr. Atkins had lost weight after his cardiac arrest, but before that was a different story. ''I knew the man,'' he said. ''He was grossly overweight. I thought he was 40 to 60 pounds overweight when I saw him, and I'm being kind.''

As for the buildup of fluids in his final days, he said, ''I never heard of anyone gaining 60 pounds of fluid in nine days.'' He said he suspected that Dr. Atkins was unable to follow his own diet. Dr. McDougall agreed that the diet produced weight loss, but said he considered it extremely unhealthy and hard to follow.

The mayor entered the Atkins controversy during a recent pasta dinner with firefighters, when he expressed skepticism that Dr. Atkins had died from a fall (there has been speculation that perhaps a heart attack caused the fall) and described him as ''fat,'' remarks picked up by NY1 News. Mrs. Atkins demanded an apology, and after first refusing to do so, the mayor issued one through his press secretary. He also invited Mrs. Atkins to a steak dinner, no potatoes.

Yesterday the mayor condemned the latest twist, saying there were ''absolutely no circumstances that private medical documents should be put out in contravention of the law.'' The medical examiner's office sent a letter to Nebraska health authorities complaining of Dr. Fleming's action. And how about the mayor's steak, no potatoes, meal with Mrs. Atkins? ''I did have something arranged and she had to cancel for family reasons and I don't know what she wants to do after that,'' he said. ''I think that was an event that, uh, we should move on from here.''

[Rockin']

Yet hhonny and I regular level do an Atkins duet??

coctors in Japan role my wife. & insuran
Please do Atkins and vegetables

Lol, Zaroku said cocters.

Strokes suck, let me tell you............Rockin'

[Zaroku]

Just What Killed the Diet Doctor, And What Keeps the Issue Alive?

By N.r. Kleinfield

So was he fat or svelte or maybe a tad chubby? Was it really a slip on the ice or could it have been something else -- even, dare it be said, something he ate?

Now there are confidential documents passed to the news media, and still more dueling authorities, not to mention the ticklish matter of the mayor and the doctor's widow and the promised steak dinner.

Oh the mess goes on and on like a seven-course meal.

Dr. Robert Atkins, the diet doctor who popularized the notion that dieters could eat fat and lose weight, has been dead for nearly a year, after he fell on some ice and hit his head last April, yet indecorous questions about his health and, yes, his weight persist, and the mayor, who hasn't even been on the diet, can't seem to stay out of it all.

The latest twist is the publication in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday of details from Dr. Atkins's confidential medical report. The report concludes that Dr. Atkins, 72, had a history of heart attack and congestive heart failure and notes that he weighed 258 pounds at death.

The release of the report by New York City officials outraged the Atkins people. It also annoyed Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, already on delicate ground in Atkins matters. ''What happened is we made a mistake,'' said Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the city medical examiner's office. Late last year, the office received a request for Dr. Atkins's medical report from Dr. Richard Fleming of the Fleming Heart and Health Institute in Omaha, Neb. On Dec. 22, a member of the records staff mistakenly mailed it out.

While cause and manner of death are public information, medical reports are not. They are to be shared only with the next of kin or anyone authorized by the next of kin, physicians or medical facilities that treated the deceased, or state or federal facilities that legitimately need it.

So it was fine to tell the world that the cause of death was ''blunt impact injury of head with epidural hematoma'' because Dr. Atkins ''fell from upright position,'' but that's it.

Dr. Fleming was not a treating physician, and, according to Ms. Borakove, did not say he was. A critic of the Atkins diet, he passed the report on to a group he was acquainted with, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, which promotes a vegetarian diet and denounces the Atkins plan.

The Physicians Committee gave the report to The Journal. Ms. Borakove said that a television station in New York apparently also has a copy, because it called her last week. (The Physicians Committee furnished a copy yesterday to The Times.)

The report, based on an external examination of the body and some hospital information, said Dr. Atkins had a history of heart attack, congestive heart failure and hypertension. His wife objected to an autopsy, Ms. Borakove said, so none was performed.

Responses to the report's release came quickly from Atkins quarters. Dr. Stuart Trager, chairman of the Atkins Physicians Council, a group of physicians who work as consultants to the Atkins organization, said the Journal article ''was based on incomplete personal medical records that were illegally delivered to the newspaper in violation of federal law.''

He said Dr. Atkins did not have a history of heart attack, nor was he obese. He said that Dr. Atkins weighed 195 pounds the day after he entered the hospital following his fall, and that he gained 63 pounds from fluid retention during the nine days he was in a coma before he died. Dr. Trager said Dr. Atkins did have cardiomyopathy, a heart muscle disease that was probably caused by a virus, not by what he ate. While Dr. Atkins had an episode of cardiac arrest the year before his death, Dr. Trager said, he was unaware that he had had any history of heart attack.

''Old age was not particularly kind to him,'' he said. ''This cardiomyopathy was a real bugger. But the physicians who were treating him had no reason to think it was diet related.''

Veronica Atkins, Dr. Atkins's widow, issued a statement yesterday expressing her horror at ''unscrupulous individuals'' who ''continue to twist and pervert the truth.'' She added, ''I have been assured by my husband's physicians that my husband's health problems late in life were completely unrelated to his diet or any diet.''

Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, stressed that it was not Dr. Atkins's health alone that interested him. ''I'm concerned about the Atkins machine trying to play the card that Atkins was healthy and thin into old age,'' he said. In his view, the Atkins diet ''is an imminent public health threat.''

Dr. John McDougall, a member of the Physicians Committee and an internist who had debated Dr. Atkins, said there was no doubt that Dr. Atkins had lost weight after his cardiac arrest, but before that was a different story. ''I knew the man,'' he said. ''He was grossly overweight. I thought he was 40 to 60 pounds overweight when I saw him, and I'm being kind.''

As for the buildup of fluids in his final days, he said, ''I never heard of anyone gaining 60 pounds of fluid in nine days.'' He said he suspected that Dr. Atkins was unable to follow his own diet. Dr. McDougall agreed that the diet produced weight loss, but said he considered it extremely unhealthy and hard to follow.

The mayor entered the Atkins controversy during a recent pasta dinner with firefighters, when he expressed skepticism that Dr. Atkins had died from a fall (there has been speculation that perhaps a heart attack caused the fall) and described him as ''fat,'' remarks picked up by NY1 News. Mrs. Atkins demanded an apology, and after first refusing to do so, the mayor issued one through his press secretary. He also invited Mrs. Atkins to a steak dinner, no potatoes.

Yesterday the mayor condemned the latest twist, saying there were ''absolutely no circumstances that private medical documents should be put out in contravention of the law.'' The medical examiner's office sent a letter to Nebraska health authorities complaining of Dr. Fleming's action. And how about the mayor's steak, no potatoes, meal with Mrs. Atkins? ''I did have something arranged and she had to cancel for family reasons and I don't know what she wants to do after that,'' he said. ''I think that was an event that, uh, we should move on from here.''

Genetics.... eskimos eat raw fattt meat... native Americans ate Buffalo heart, liver... raw...

my mom is up in ages and she loves liver...

when coke was introduce with corn syrup cancer rates soared...

im no doctor but, my health check last time was great...

I eat fruit in season... I eat fish in season....