Every 40 seconds, someone in the United States suffers a stroke. That adds up to 795,000 strokes a year. And the number doesn’t count invisible “silent” strokes.
Every four minutes, someone dies of a stroke. Though death rates have dropped, strokes still kill more than 137,000 Americans a year. That makes stroke the fourth-leading cause of death.
The diets used in the DASH and OmniHeart studies trim blood pressure and LDL (“bad”) cholesterol. Our day’s worth of food is a hybrid of the two OmniHeart diets—one higher in protein and one higher in unsaturated fat—that also lowered triglycerides.
Stomach pain, diarrhea, weight loss. Those are some of the symptoms of celiac disease, which is an autoimmune reaction to gluten, a protein found in wheat, barley, and rye. At least one out of 100 Americans have celiac. Most of them don’t know it. And studies suggest that some people who don’t have the disease still can’t tolerate gluten.
