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5 Foods That Can Trigger a Stroke
Few things feel more terrifying and random than a stroke, which can strike without warning. And fear of stroke -- when a blood vessel in or leading to the brain bursts or is blocked by a blood clot, starving brain cells of oxygen and nutrients -- is well founded. After all, stroke is the number-three killer in the U.S., affecting more than 700,000 people each year. Here are five foods that cause the damage that leads to stroke.
1. Crackers, chips, and store-bought pastries and baked goods
Muffins, doughnuts, chips, crackers, and many other baked goods are high in trans fats, which are hydrogenated oils popular with commercial bakeries because they stay solid at room temperature, so the products don't require refrigeration. Also listed on labels as "partially hydrogenated" or hydrogenated oils, trans fats are found in all kinds of snack foods, frozen foods, and baked goods, including salad dressings, microwave popcorn, stuffing mixes, frozen tater tots and French fries, cake mixes, and whipped toppings. They're also what makes margarine stay in a solid cube. The worst offenders are fried fast foods such as onion rings, French fries, and fried chicken.
Why it's bad
For years scientists have known trans fats are dangerous artery-blockers, upping the concentrations of lipids and bad cholesterol in the blood and lowering good cholesterol. Now we can add stroke to the list of dangers. This year researchers at the University of North Carolina found that women who ate 7 grams of trans fat each day -- about the amount in two doughnuts or half a serving of French fries -- had 30 percent more strokes (the ischemic type, caused by blocked blood flow to the brain) than women who ate just 1 gram a day. Another recent study, also in women, found that trans fats promoted inflammation and higher levels of C-reactive protein, which have been linked to an increased risk of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
What to do
Aim to limit trans fats to no more than 1 or 2 grams a day -- and preferably none. Avoid fast-food French fries and other fried menu items and study packaged food labels closely. Even better, bake your own cookies, cakes, and other snacks. When you can't, search out "health-food" alternative snacks, such as Terra brand potato chips and traditional whole grain crackers such as those made by Finn, Wasa, AkMak, Ryvita, and Lavasch.
2. Smoked and processed meats
Whether your weakness is pastrami, sausage, hot dogs, bacon, or a smoked turkey sandwich, the word from the experts is: Watch out.
Why it's bad
Smoked and processed meats are nasty contributors to stroke risk in two ways: The preserving processes leave them packed with sodium, but even worse are the preservatives used to keep processed meats from going bad. Sodium nitrate and nitrite have been shown by researchers to directly damage blood vessels, causing arteries to harden and narrow. And of course damaged, overly narrow blood vessels are exactly what you don't want if you fear stroke.
Many studies have linked processed meats to coronary artery disease (CAD); one meta-analysis in the journal Circulation calculated a 42-percent increase in coronary heart disease for those who eat one serving of processed meat a day. Stroke is not the only concern for salami fans; cancer journals have reported numerous studies in the past few years showing that consumption of cured and smoked meats is linked with increased risk of diabetes and higher incidences of numerous types of cancer, including leukemia.
What to do
If a smoked turkey or ham sandwich is your lunch of choice, try to vary your diet, switching to tuna, peanut butter, or other choices several days a week. Or cook turkey and chicken yourself and slice it thin for sandwiches.
How to Tell if Someone Is Having a Stroke
3. Diet soda
Although replacing sugary drinks with diet soda seems like a smart solution for keeping weight down -- a heart-healthy goal -- it turns out diet soda is likely a major bad guy when it comes to stroke.
Why it's bad
People who drink a diet soda a day may up their stroke risk by 48 percent. A Columbia University study presented at the American Stroke Association's 2011 International Stroke Conference followed 2,500 people ages 40 and older and found that daily diet soda drinkers had 60 percent more strokes, heart attacks, and coronary artery disease than those who didn't drink diet soda. Researchers don't know exactly how diet soda ups stroke risk -- and are following up with further studies -- but nutritionists are cautioning anyone concerned about stroke to cut out diet soda pop.
What to do
Substitute more water for soda in your daily diet. It's the healthiest thirst-quencher by far, researchers say. If you don't like water, try lemonade, iced tea, or juice.
4. Red meat
This winter, when the respected journal Stroke published a study showing that women who consumed a large portion of red meat each day had a 42-percent higher incidence of stroke, it got nutrition experts talking. The information that red meat, with its high saturated fat content, isn't healthy for those looking to prevent heart disease and stroke wasn't exactly news. But the percentage increase (almost 50 percent!) was both startling and solid; the researchers arrived at their finding after following 35,000 Swedish women for ten years.
Why it's bad
Researchers have long known that the saturated fat in red meat raises the risk of stroke and heart disease by gradually clogging arteries with a buildup of protein plaques. Now it turns out that hemoglobin, the ingredient that gives red meat its high iron content, may pose a specific danger when it comes to stroke. Researchers are investigating whether blood becomes thicker and more viscous as a result of the consumption of so-called heme iron, specifically upping the chance of strokes.
What to do
Aim to substitute more poultry -- particularly white meat -- and fish, which are low in heme iron, for red meat. Also, choose the heart-healthiest sources of protein whenever you can, especially beans, legumes, nuts, tofu, and nonfat dairy.
5. Canned soup and prepared foods
Whether it's canned soup, canned spaghetti, or healthy-sounding frozen dinners, prepared foods and mixes rely on sodium to increase flavor and make processed foods taste fresher. Canned soup is cited by nutritionists as the worst offender; one can of canned chicken noodle soup contains more than 1,100 mg of sodium, while many other varieties, from clam chowder to simple tomato, have between 450 and 800 mg per serving. Compare that to the American Heart and Stroke Association's recommendation of less than1,500 mg of sodium daily and you'll see the problem. In fact, a nutritionist-led campaign, the National Salt Reduction Initiative, calls on food companies to reduce the salt content in canned soup and other products by 20 percent in the next two years.
Why it's bad
Salt, or sodium as it's called on food labels, directly affects stroke risk. In one recent study, people who consumed more than 4,000 mg of sodium daily had more than double the risk of stroke compared to those who ate 2,000 mg or less. Yet the Centers for Disease Control estimate that most Americans eat close to 3,500 mg of sodium per day. Studies show that sodium raises blood pressure, the primary causative factor for stroke. And be warned: Sodium wears many tricky disguises, which allow it to hide in all sorts of foods that we don't necessarily think of as salty. Some common, safe-sounding ingredients that really mean salt:
Baking soda
Baking powder
MSG (monosodium glutamate)
Disodium phosphate
Sodium alginate
What to do
Make your own homemade soups and entrees, then freeze individual serving-sized portions. Buy low-sodium varieties, but read labels carefully, since not all products marked "low sodium" live up to that promise.
1. Crackers, chips, and store-bought pastries and baked goods
Muffins, doughnuts, chips, crackers, and many other baked goods are high in trans fats, which are hydrogenated oils popular with commercial bakeries because they stay solid at room temperature, so the products don't require refrigeration. Also listed on labels as "partially hydrogenated" or hydrogenated oils, trans fats are found in all kinds of snack foods, frozen foods, and baked goods, including salad dressings, microwave popcorn, stuffing mixes, frozen tater tots and French fries, cake mixes, and whipped toppings. They're also what makes margarine stay in a solid cube. The worst offenders are fried fast foods such as onion rings, French fries, and fried chicken.
Why it's bad
For years scientists have known trans fats are dangerous artery-blockers, upping the concentrations of lipids and bad cholesterol in the blood and lowering good cholesterol. Now we can add stroke to the list of dangers. This year researchers at the University of North Carolina found that women who ate 7 grams of trans fat each day -- about the amount in two doughnuts or half a serving of French fries -- had 30 percent more strokes (the ischemic type, caused by blocked blood flow to the brain) than women who ate just 1 gram a day. Another recent study, also in women, found that trans fats promoted inflammation and higher levels of C-reactive protein, which have been linked to an increased risk of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
What to do
Aim to limit trans fats to no more than 1 or 2 grams a day -- and preferably none. Avoid fast-food French fries and other fried menu items and study packaged food labels closely. Even better, bake your own cookies, cakes, and other snacks. When you can't, search out "health-food" alternative snacks, such as Terra brand potato chips and traditional whole grain crackers such as those made by Finn, Wasa, AkMak, Ryvita, and Lavasch.
2. Smoked and processed meats
Whether your weakness is pastrami, sausage, hot dogs, bacon, or a smoked turkey sandwich, the word from the experts is: Watch out.
Why it's bad
Smoked and processed meats are nasty contributors to stroke risk in two ways: The preserving processes leave them packed with sodium, but even worse are the preservatives used to keep processed meats from going bad. Sodium nitrate and nitrite have been shown by researchers to directly damage blood vessels, causing arteries to harden and narrow. And of course damaged, overly narrow blood vessels are exactly what you don't want if you fear stroke.
Many studies have linked processed meats to coronary artery disease (CAD); one meta-analysis in the journal Circulation calculated a 42-percent increase in coronary heart disease for those who eat one serving of processed meat a day. Stroke is not the only concern for salami fans; cancer journals have reported numerous studies in the past few years showing that consumption of cured and smoked meats is linked with increased risk of diabetes and higher incidences of numerous types of cancer, including leukemia.
What to do
If a smoked turkey or ham sandwich is your lunch of choice, try to vary your diet, switching to tuna, peanut butter, or other choices several days a week. Or cook turkey and chicken yourself and slice it thin for sandwiches.
How to Tell if Someone Is Having a Stroke
3. Diet soda
Although replacing sugary drinks with diet soda seems like a smart solution for keeping weight down -- a heart-healthy goal -- it turns out diet soda is likely a major bad guy when it comes to stroke.
Why it's bad
People who drink a diet soda a day may up their stroke risk by 48 percent. A Columbia University study presented at the American Stroke Association's 2011 International Stroke Conference followed 2,500 people ages 40 and older and found that daily diet soda drinkers had 60 percent more strokes, heart attacks, and coronary artery disease than those who didn't drink diet soda. Researchers don't know exactly how diet soda ups stroke risk -- and are following up with further studies -- but nutritionists are cautioning anyone concerned about stroke to cut out diet soda pop.
What to do
Substitute more water for soda in your daily diet. It's the healthiest thirst-quencher by far, researchers say. If you don't like water, try lemonade, iced tea, or juice.
4. Red meat
This winter, when the respected journal Stroke published a study showing that women who consumed a large portion of red meat each day had a 42-percent higher incidence of stroke, it got nutrition experts talking. The information that red meat, with its high saturated fat content, isn't healthy for those looking to prevent heart disease and stroke wasn't exactly news. But the percentage increase (almost 50 percent!) was both startling and solid; the researchers arrived at their finding after following 35,000 Swedish women for ten years.
Why it's bad
Researchers have long known that the saturated fat in red meat raises the risk of stroke and heart disease by gradually clogging arteries with a buildup of protein plaques. Now it turns out that hemoglobin, the ingredient that gives red meat its high iron content, may pose a specific danger when it comes to stroke. Researchers are investigating whether blood becomes thicker and more viscous as a result of the consumption of so-called heme iron, specifically upping the chance of strokes.
What to do
Aim to substitute more poultry -- particularly white meat -- and fish, which are low in heme iron, for red meat. Also, choose the heart-healthiest sources of protein whenever you can, especially beans, legumes, nuts, tofu, and nonfat dairy.
5. Canned soup and prepared foods
Whether it's canned soup, canned spaghetti, or healthy-sounding frozen dinners, prepared foods and mixes rely on sodium to increase flavor and make processed foods taste fresher. Canned soup is cited by nutritionists as the worst offender; one can of canned chicken noodle soup contains more than 1,100 mg of sodium, while many other varieties, from clam chowder to simple tomato, have between 450 and 800 mg per serving. Compare that to the American Heart and Stroke Association's recommendation of less than1,500 mg of sodium daily and you'll see the problem. In fact, a nutritionist-led campaign, the National Salt Reduction Initiative, calls on food companies to reduce the salt content in canned soup and other products by 20 percent in the next two years.
Why it's bad
Salt, or sodium as it's called on food labels, directly affects stroke risk. In one recent study, people who consumed more than 4,000 mg of sodium daily had more than double the risk of stroke compared to those who ate 2,000 mg or less. Yet the Centers for Disease Control estimate that most Americans eat close to 3,500 mg of sodium per day. Studies show that sodium raises blood pressure, the primary causative factor for stroke. And be warned: Sodium wears many tricky disguises, which allow it to hide in all sorts of foods that we don't necessarily think of as salty. Some common, safe-sounding ingredients that really mean salt:
Baking soda
Baking powder
MSG (monosodium glutamate)
Disodium phosphate
Sodium alginate
What to do
Make your own homemade soups and entrees, then freeze individual serving-sized portions. Buy low-sodium varieties, but read labels carefully, since not all products marked "low sodium" live up to that promise.
Tags: food, prevention, stroke, trigger
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Permalink Reply by Sw33tNeSS on -
Fuuuuuuuuuuck. This is my daily diet. Don't worry I'm def going to a nutritionist and a dietician and my physician real soon cause I been feeling real sluggish lately. Ughhhhhhhhhhhhh
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Permalink Reply by OLD $PICE PINE NEEDLE on -
lol @ sweetness.
safe-sounding ingredients that really mean salt:
Baking soda
Baking powder
MSG (monosodium glutamate)
Disodium phosphate
Sodium alginateSN: no wonder people are suffering from high blood pressure, if it's too difficult to pronounce we it shouldn't even be in our foods.
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Permalink Reply by Baller Alert on -
This sounds crazy
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Permalink Reply by blackfujones on -
i limit myself to 1 fill of fried foods a month. i dont eat fast foods period(neither do my children) we dont drink pop at all but i will say my weakness is chips and used to be beef hotdogs(chicago thing) which i limit to 1 small bag a day lol....i used to be a chip junky. What else oh I stopped eating beef 2 months ago bc it was slowing me down. I basically cook all my meals and if i go out to eat I'll ask for the chef and asks how he/she prepares their meals(most chefs are happy to tell you how, or ask if you want to cook it with them)
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Permalink Reply by blackfujones on
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My family is very health conscious so my aunt used to pound in my head to be worried about heart disease and prostate cancer. I was 25 when i got my first prostate test and have been gettin em annually since then.
OLD $PICE PINE NEEDLE said:
lol @ sweetness.
safe-sounding ingredients that really mean salt:
Baking soda
Baking powder
MSG (monosodium glutamate)
Disodium phosphate
Sodium alginateSN: no wonder people are suffering from high blood pressure, if it's too difficult to pronounce we it shouldn't even be in our foods.
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Permalink Reply by MS. UCAN NEVA GET ENUFF!! on -
i BARELY eat any of tht stuff....i can count on 1 hand how many times ive had fast food fries this yr, and when I take my nieces to McDOnalds, they get juice and apples. I try not to eat out tooo much because Im afraid of getting sick and I dont know what they put in their food.
also, for you turkey bacon lovers, most turkey bacon has more sodium than regular bacon.
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Permalink Reply by OLD $PICE PINE NEEDLE on
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You know there is arsenic in apple juice (small amounts but no harmful to humans). Saw it of Dr Oz, but the FDA scolded him (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/16/news/la-heb-apples-arsenic-...
MS. UCAN NEVA GET ENUFF!! said:
i BARELY eat any of tht stuff....i can count on 1 hand how many times ive had fast food fries this yr, and when I take my nieces to McDOnalds, they get juice and apples. I try not to eat out tooo much because Im afraid of getting sick and I dont know what they put in their food.
also, for you turkey bacon lovers, most turkey bacon has more sodium than regular bacon.
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Permalink Reply by MS. UCAN NEVA GET ENUFF!! on
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I have a short atention span, so I stop processing after so many words, but did he mean that the apples have arsenic in them?? or after it was turned into apple juice???
The Dr. Oz website contains this explainer: "Other countries may use pesticides that contain arsenic, a heavy metal known to cause cancer. After testing dozens of samples from three different cities in America, Dr. Oz discovered that some of the nation's best known brands of apple juice contain arsenic."
so pesticides contain arsenic????? so wouldnt that be with ALMOST anything we grow, (im not a farmer, but dont they use pesticides to spray the stuff)
(from the FDA man) "When I look at the evidence of what was in those samples of apple and how the study was done, it doesn't raise concerns to me." And that we should be worried more about the sugar????? Sugar is worse than arsenic???
Im confused. Help!!! I dont wanna eat anything anymore
OLD $PICE PINE NEEDLE said:You know there is arsenic in apple juice (small amounts but no harmful to humans). Saw it of Dr Oz, but the FDA scolded him (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/16/news/la-heb-apples-arsenic-...
MS. UCAN NEVA GET ENUFF!! said:
i BARELY eat any of tht stuff....i can count on 1 hand how many times ive had fast food fries this yr, and when I take my nieces to McDOnalds, they get juice and apples. I try not to eat out tooo much because Im afraid of getting sick and I dont know what they put in their food.
also, for you turkey bacon lovers, most turkey bacon has more sodium than regular bacon.
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Permalink Reply by OLD $PICE PINE NEEDLE on
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Guuuurl, I know as much as you :(
MS. UCAN NEVA GET ENUFF!! said:
I have a short atention span, so I stop processing after so many words, but did he mean that the apples have arsenic in them?? or after it was turned into apple juice???
The Dr. Oz website contains this explainer: "Other countries may use pesticides that contain arsenic, a heavy metal known to cause cancer. After testing dozens of samples from three different cities in America, Dr. Oz discovered that some of the nation's best known brands of apple juice contain arsenic."
so pesticides contain arsenic????? so wouldnt that be with ALMOST anything we grow, (im not a farmer, but dont they use pesticides to spray the stuff)
(from the FDA man) "When I look at the evidence of what was in those samples of apple and how the study was done, it doesn't raise concerns to me." And that we should be worried more about the sugar????? Sugar is worse than arsenic???
Im confused. Help!!! I dont wanna eat anything anymore
OLD $PICE PINE NEEDLE said:You know there is arsenic in apple juice (small amounts but no harmful to humans). Saw it of Dr Oz, but the FDA scolded him (http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/16/news/la-heb-apples-arsenic-...
MS. UCAN NEVA GET ENUFF!! said:
i BARELY eat any of tht stuff....i can count on 1 hand how many times ive had fast food fries this yr, and when I take my nieces to McDOnalds, they get juice and apples. I try not to eat out tooo much because Im afraid of getting sick and I dont know what they put in their food.
also, for you turkey bacon lovers, most turkey bacon has more sodium than regular bacon.
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Permalink Reply by The Philly Corporate Diva on -
I tried that raw vegan diet this past week, and I was FIENDING for these type of foods I was like Pookie from New Jack City for pepperoni on a cheesesteak smh lol
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