What Not to Eat for Stroke Prevention

What Not to Eat for Stroke Prevention

What Not to Eat for Stroke Prevention

What is the relationship between stroke risk and dairy, eggs, meat, and soda?

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Does Diet Soda Increase Stroke Risk as Much as Regular Soda? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does… Check out the video!

For more on TMAO, see:
• Eggs, Choline, and Cancer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-…)
• Carnitine, Choline, Cancer, and Cholesterol: The TMAO Connection (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/carn…)
• Egg Industry Response to Choline and TMAO (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/egg-…)
• How to Develop a Health Gut Ecosystem (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-t…)
• How to Treat Heart Failure and Kidney Failure with Diet (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-…)
• How to Reduce Your TMAO Levels (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/How-…)

What are some better dietary choices? That was the subject of my last video What to Eat for Stroke Prevention (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-…

But wait, what about those headlines suggesting vegetarians were at higher risk? I explore that in my next video, Do Vegetarians Really Have Higher Stroke Risk? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/do-ve…

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1.11 -> [Music]
7.2 -> [Music]
10.29 -> the large majority the available
12.85 -> evidence is in favor of a protective
15.13 -> association between fruit and vegetable
17.56 -> consumption in the risk of stroke the
20.86 -> worst foods appear to be meat and soda
24.1 -> eating like a a burger for lunch and a
26.619 -> pork chop for dinner to breakfast
29.02 -> sausage links the typical 20 ounce
31.36 -> bottle of soda may increased stroke risk
32.949 -> by 60%
35.28 -> reviewers suggesting meat effect may be
38.319 -> the mmm saturated fat or cholesterol the
40.479 -> iron mediated oxidized fed or the salt
43.6 -> but it could also be the TMAO the
46.809 -> carnitine and meat and the choline in
49.149 -> dairy seafood and especially eggs is
51.67 -> converted by our gut bacteria into
54.539 -> trimethylamine which is oxidized by a
56.799 -> liver to TMAO which may then contribute
59.769 -> to heart attacks stroke and death and
63.249 -> indeed in a 2019 study published in the
66.34 -> Journal of the American Medical
67.24 -> Association following tens of thousands
70.119 -> of Americans for a meeting about 17
72.28 -> years up to a maximum of 31 years found
75.13 -> that higher consumption of dietary
76.96 -> cholesterol or eggs was significantly
79.81 -> associated with higher risk of incident
82.289 -> cardiovascular disease and all cause
84.939 -> mortality in a dose-response manner
87.43 -> meaning those who ate more eggs or
90.159 -> consumed more cholesterol in general
92.469 -> appear to live significantly shorter
94.539 -> lives on average and the more eggs the
97.689 -> worse it was and this includes egg
99.85 -> consumption and stroke but that's not
103.84 -> what a meta-analysis funded by the egg
106.45 -> industry found it turns out that such
108.82 -> meta analyses have evidently been flawed
111.399 -> by major methodological drawbacks so to
114.46 -> eat or not to eat it would seem
118.829 -> moderation of egg consumption is called
121.569 -> for along with other sources of dietary
123.67 -> cholesterol given the new study data
125.89 -> which had the advantage of a longer
128.14 -> follow-up than the majority of the
130.06 -> previous studies and may therefore have
131.77 -> you know provided more power to detect
134.84 -> associations similarly with
136.4 -> meta-analyses of dairy no apparent link
139.64 -> emerged but evidence of publication bias
143.12 -> was found meaning there appeared to be
145.31 -> missing studies potentially shelved by
148.099 -> industry funded researchers for not
150.05 -> showing you know funder friendly effects
152.42 -> a researcher studying the relationship
155.15 -> between funding sources and conclusions
158.33 -> and studies of sugary drinks and milk
160.069 -> found the studies funded by the likes of
161.81 -> coca-cola and the Dairy Council had over
164.45 -> seven times the likelihood of coming to
166.9 -> funder friendly conclusions than
169.579 -> independent research which is twice as
172.31 -> bad as drug companies big pharma only
175.13 -> seems to be able to get away with a
176.319 -> three-fold bias particularly interest
179.569 -> and not a single one of the
181.73 -> interventional studies looking at soda
183.47 -> or milk ended up with a unfavorable
186.53 -> conclusion the bottom line is that yes
189.11 -> you dairy fat may be better than other
191.15 -> animal fats such as those found in meat
193.549 -> but something like whole grains would be
196.67 -> better still though swapping dairy out
199.19 -> for it refined grains or added sugar
201.2 -> wouldn't be doing you many favors when
205.25 -> it comes to stroke risk
206.18 -> vegetable fat is better than dairy fed
208.85 -> meat fat is the worst whole grains are
211.97 -> better in fish fat added sugars and
214.22 -> refined grains are statistically about
216.53 -> the same in terms of dietary patterns
219.92 -> and stroke most of the studies on
221.799 -> plant-based diet err patterns have found
224.54 -> a protective effect against stroke
226.34 -> whereas those looking at westernized
228.919 -> patterns those based more on animal
230.9 -> foods and added sugars and fats found a
232.79 -> detrimental effect the hearin stew
235.69 -> westernized patterns African Americans
238.79 -> are five times as likely to die from
240.56 -> stroke in middle-age a black/white
242.959 -> disparity largely driven by the fact
245.389 -> that they're just having so many more
247.37 -> strokes in this population a southern
249.919 -> style diet characterized by a lot of
252.29 -> fried foods and meat may be playing a
254.269 -> role in increasing the risk of stroke
256.22 -> whereas adherence to more plant-based
258.349 -> diets may reduce stroke risk yes wrote
262.19 -> the director of the stroke prevention
264.11 -> and atherosclerosis Research Center
266.51 -> learning to make vegetarian meals every
268.94 -> other days it's all order for most North
271.4 -> Americans but is feasible given tasty
274.43 -> recipes and a positive attitude
280.78 -> [Music]
292.04 -> you

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