Along with the post, the postman delivered some literature about stroke today.

According to that literature, the care and treatment of stroke places a greater financial burden on the economy than that of any other condition - £7 billion a year - and accounts for 11% of deaths in the UK. It says almost one in four men and one in five women aged 45 can expect to have a stroke if they live to 85.

You may know or may have known someone in the past who suffered a stroke. I knew an old lady who had a stroke and it was a very disabling and distressing condition for her, especially because she then developed dementia too. And I knew a highly intelligent fellow who had a stroke and suffered greatly because of the frustrations of communication problems. And I remember how hard it was for his wife, a woman of great fortitude, to look after him because she was multiply-disabled herself.

You can greatly reduce your risk of a stroke by significantly lowering your intake of salt and salty food. - It would certainly be worth it.

Here is the URL of the Stroke Association, which helps stroke victims and their families: www.stroke.org.uk

Lose weight, reduce your risk of most cancers, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stroke, heart disease, heart attack, vascular dementia, osteopenia, osteoporosis, hypercholesterolaemia, depression, liver and kidney problems, and improve your health in many other ways without drugs, hunger or expense by eating less salt! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!

Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

And see Sodium in foods and

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/story.html - my 'political' page

http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/socio.html - social and economic considerations

amitriptyline

prescribed steroids and HRT

See advice for pregnant mothers

Children and Obesity

Associated health conditions

and FAT RETENTION

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