Prevent Strokes By Eating Well

There is new evidence that diets rich in magnesium can help reduce the risk of stroke.   This goes along with the general notion that many of our modern illnesses are caused by our diet, or the lack of nutritious foods in our diet.   You know everyone is worried about calories, and that's fine, you should watch them.  But I would argue if you're only eating highly nutritious foods its easier to not consume as many calories.  When you eat something with lots of vitamins in it, you feel more full.  And you are practicing preventive medicine.  After all, by eating something like whole wheat bread instead of bleached white bread, you are cutting your risks of all kinds of diseases.  If a pill did that, you would pay a lot of money to take it, but really all you have to do is eat well.  

Take a Multivitamin

Vitamins can cost a lot of money over time.   Its something you may hate to put into your grocery cart.  But its a small cost compared to trying figure out how to buy health insurance with a preexisting condition.   Vitamins can help prevent many diseases and lead to a general feeling of well being.  

It doesn't matter what time of day you take your vitamin.  But probably the best time is with a meal just in case you have some stomach reaction to the vitamin.

Eat A Wide Variety Of Foods

Look at the labels on the food you eat.  The top ingredients in most cases are white flour, some kind of oil and then some kind of sugar.   The problem is that this narrow exposure to ingredients leads you to eat a very low amount of vitamins and minerals.   If you start eating a wide variety of foods and ingredients, you will get the wide variety of nutrients that your body needs for optimum health.   Doing so can lead to all kinds of healthy outcomes.

And when it comes to your health, there is no excuse to overlook nutrition.  It is simply expensive and boneheaded to stop eating healthy food only to then take lots of pills later in life.  There is an old proverb that says something to the effect that if a man doesn't eat right but wants his his doctor's treatment is wasting his doctors time.   That is absolutely true.  You have to make sure you take care of yourself first before you expect society to take care of you.  And its very easy to take care of yourself, just look at your food labels and make sure that there is a wide variety of ingredients.