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About 20% of adults who died in 2020 from coronary artery disease, the most common form of heart disease in the US, were adults aged 65 and under. ....
Every year, more than 795,000 people in the US have a stroke and about 610,000 of these are first-time events, according to the CDC. The majority of these are women, who have a lifetime risk of 1 in 5 of ever having a stroke. Strokes kill twice as many women as breast cancer. Yet there is a simple way to lower your risk, according to a new study out of Harvard, by shifting away from animal products to a plant-centric diet. The latest study comes from researchers from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and was published in the journal Neurology. Titled “Quality of Plant-based Diet and Risk of Total, Ischemic, and Hemorrhagic Stroke,” the research revealed that a healthy, plant-based diet, focused on vegetables, leafy greens, whole grains, and beans, and containing lower levels of animal product and processed foods, as well as added sugars was linked with a lower risk of stroke. ....