| Six Servings a Day Keeps Strokes at Bay |
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| by Diet Detective Editorial Staff | |
| Thursday, 22 June 2006 | |
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Study shows eating six daily servings of fruits and vegetables reduces the risk of strokes. Need another reason to eat your fruits and veggies? Men and women who eat six servings a day are less likely to have strokes, according to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Albert Ascherio and colleagues studied more than 75,000 women who entered the Nurses' Health Study in 1980 and more than 38,000 men who participated in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study in 1986. By 1994, 366 of the women and 204 of the men experienced an ischemic stroke, which usually occurs when a partially clogged artery feeding the brain is blocked by a blood clot. The people in the study least likely to have strokes were those who ate the most cruciferous or leafy green vegetables. Men who ate an average of five servings and women who ate an average of six servings had about a 30 percent lower risk of stroke than those who had fewer than six servings a day. Wondering which veggies to include on your next shopping list? Here's the lineup: arugula, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, collard greens, kale, kohlrabi, mustard greens, radishes, rutabagas, turnip greens and watercress. Bookmark:            Trackback(0)
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