New health guidelines offered by the American Heart Association claim that a healthy lifestyle — which includes not smoking, eating a low-fat diet with plenty of fruits and vegetables, exercising, and maintaining a healthy body weight — can lower the risk of a first heart attack by 80 percent. Web MD reports that for the first time, the guidelines address stroke as a continuum of related events rather than a single isolated episode. These related events can include ischemic stroke, which accounts for 87 percent of all strokes, non-ischemic stroke, and transient ischemic attack, which in many cases is considered a warning sign of a possible impending stroke. In the United States, stroke death rates have declined by more than a third between 1999 and 2006; however, stroke remains the third leading cause of death after cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Health, fitness and lifestyle tips for people over 50 who still like to play hard
Saturday, May 31, 2025
Life style can cut the risk of almost anything you can think of! Don’t drink,don’t smoke,don’t chase women,eat this not that! If you do right,eat right,sleep right you’ll live a long life. WOW! All they had to do was ask me!! American Heart Association,I’M impressed!
And all along I was thinking that the right lifestyle would eliminate the chance of stroke entirely 100%.
What would cause the other 20%???