Bananas protect women from stroke

Eating foods that contain large amounts of potassium, allowing postmenopausal women by 12% to reduce the risk of stroke. This conclusion was American scientists.

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Published in the journal Stroke study, involving 90 137 postmenopausal women aged from 50 to 79 years, showed great preventive value products containing many Potassium . For women monitored for 12 years. It turned out that if in their diet had a lot of bananas, beans and other fruits and vegetables, rich potassium Then the risk of stroke They have decreased by 12% compared with those who received a minimum quantity potassium.

Previously, scientists have found that Potassium helps to reduce blood pressure, but it was unclear to what extent this helps in stroke prevention. The researchers tracked the amount of potassium, that women prepared food, as well as the number of strokes and deaths. The average daily dose of potassium in women was 2, 611 mg / day.

The biggest positive effect was observed among those women who have already suffered at the start of observations from hypertension. In their case, a diet rich in potassium helps reduce the risk of ischemic stroke by 27%, and both types of stroke by 21% compared to with women who consumed the least potassium. In women with low blood pressure (hypotension), a large amount of potassium in the diet It reduced the risk of death, but not the risk of stroke . In accordance with WHO recommendations, the daily dose of potassium in the diet of an adult human must be between 3 and 510 or more. Unfortunately, only 16% of participants studies in line with this recommendation. (READ MORE)

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