Nutrition Strategies that Sink Your Risk for a Stroke
- Push up the number of potassium-rich foods you eat every day. The mineral potassium lowers stroke risk. Where do you find potassium in food? The top sources are fruits and vegetables along with a few other foods that might surprise you. Some good sources of potassium, and by no means is this a complete list, include a baked potato with skin, pasta sauce, Edamame (soybeans), sweet potato, bananas, spinach, apricots, papayas, watermelon, and grapes. So pump up your intake of fruits and veggies to eight or more servings a day. Here are a few potassium-rich foods that might surprise you: milk, halibut and tuna (both cooked although canned tuna has potassium, it's contains less) and great northern beans.
- Speaking of halibut and tuna, try to eat fish twice a week. Many studies find that people who eat fish regularly have a lower stroke risk. Although the exact mechanism of action is not known, one thought is that the omega-3s in fish help bring down triglyceride levels, reduce clotting and reduce inflammation, all of which are tied to strokes.
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