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IDENTIFY STROKE SYMPTOMS IN 60 SECONDS

Anybody can recognise if someone has had a stroke or not. Then they can get medical help as quickly as possible.
Stroke is the third biggest cause of death in Australia, after heart attacks and cancer. Over 40,000 Australians suffer a stroke every year. A third of these people die within a year, and half will be disabled, some of these severely, requiring long term, high- dependency care. Some victims never speak or walk again. Stroke, for some 20,000 Australian per year, is a devastating event.
There is some very good news though.......

PREVENTING GETTING A STROKE

IT’S TRUE - strokes can be prevented. Having a stroke has become a common occurrence in the community, with its inevitability quite accepted. Few people believe that anything they do during the course of their life in the way of diet and lifestyle makes such a difference so as to prevent serious illness like a stroke. Yet more and more research tells us more and more that diet and lifestyle can make a real difference.
At a conference on Stroke and Cerebral Circulation in Orlando, US it was reported that stroke patients who receive high doses of B vitamins, the risk of stroke is reduced in a relatively short time. The main B vitamins used were folate (Vit B9) B6 and B12. These doses were given in much higher doses than the recommended daily allowances. By giving the B vitamins in relatively large amounts, a good effect was seen in three months. B vitamins are found in the diet in 100% whole grain bread and cereals, leafy green vegetables, eggs and milk........

AVOIDING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

Good dietary habits can make a huge difference to the risk of getting Alzheimer’s disease, according to a US study.

The study has found that drinking fruit and vegetable juices might be the key to avoiding Alzheimer's disease and dementia. The American researchers tracked the habits of almost 2,000 people for up to 10 years and found that the risk of Alzheimer's was reduced by 76 per cent for those who drank juice more than three times a week.

Alzheimer's researchers say the study reinforces the links between the disease and what goes into our mouths.

Rebecca Wood, from Britain's Alzheimer's Research Trust says that this study ties in with work that's been done earlier on eating foods like dark berries which seemed to show significant reduction in risk from people who ate a lot of dark berry fruit.

Eating more fruit and fruit and vegetable juices, are good for you and they tend to tie in with people with better lifestyles anyway. Fresh fruit requires absolutely no preparation, which is often a reason why people find it difficult to establish better eating habits.

The general understanding of how fresh fruit might help a disease like Alzheimer’s, is that anti-oxidants help us to get rid of what are known as free radicals, that whiz around our body and damage cells. The fruit and vegetable vitamins then mop those up and stop them doing the damage. This most recent study has been conducted on a large number of people over ten years, so its results are worth sitting up and taking notice of.

Discovering that Alzheimer’s is related to diet is great, because it's a very low cost option of trying to reduce risk. The use of diet in avoiding Alzheimer’s is becoming more of significant – and obviously the good eating patterns need to start earlier in life than waiting until you reach your 70’s.

If somehow, studies like this could impact on the population and get people increasing their fruit and vegetable intake and having some fruit and vegetable juices, the results could be staggering. The amount of suffering for the patients and their carers could change, by increasing the fruit and vegetable content of the diet, at least from middle age onwards.

This type of dietary change also impacts positively on other areas of health like heart disease and cancer – another two diseases that affect a huge number of elderly Australians.

A juicer costs around $100 and a juice takes a few minutes to make. Cleaning juicers afterwards is fiddly, but not nearly as much trouble as dealing with degenerative diseases which are common in people past middle age. Making juices can be done in any combination of fruit and vegetables, but the most common one is carrot, celery and apple juice. Adding beetroot makes for a crimson drink, and tastes surprisingly sweet. Even children will drink this. Vegetables like parsley and spinach can be added, but they do taste quite strong. Whatever is in your fridge and can be eaten raw, is good for juicing. Softer fruits like oranges, tend not to juice as well, but make the juice taste delicious. Adding a little fresh ginger gives a fresh juice a zingy taste.

It is hard to know if you are a candidate for Alzheimer’s or dementia, 20 years before it’s likely to strike. Drinking fresh fruit and vegetable juices regularly is a wonderfully healthy habit that will make you feel more energetic and healthy, and probably avoid a range of other potential health problems as well.