Odds of stroke rise sharply among young people

[crimethink]

http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/health-and-medicine/article5418054.html

“You can be 35 and have the risk factors of a 75-year-old,” said Dr. Lucian Maidan, Dignity Health’s regional medical director of neurovascular medicine. “People are getting sicker. They have unhealthy lifestyles. That’s a worrisome trend.”

[Hitch]

If someone you know and love is having a stroke, you need to get them to the hospital, ASAP. They have clot busters there, but it's very time sensitive.

A person having a stroke often seems drunk. Have them squeeze both your hands with theirs. If one hand doesn't squeeze right...have them smile. If only one side of their face smiles, stroke. Have them say the sky is blue in Cincinnati. If only one side of the face moves, get them to the hospital asap.

The person will not know they are having a stroke, it's up to YOU to find that out.

[Serpo]

They have unhealthy lifestyles............especially since thats the only lifestyle promoted out there

[Glass]

Energy poison drinks. High fructose, high caffeine, aspartame. Tons of other chemicals that are unpronounceable.

There's a point. Do energy drinks contain sugar and aspartame at the same time?

If you regularly drink aspartame sweetened drinks you will suffer substantial liver damage. People of 25 showing up with the liver of someone who drank a bottle of scotch a day for 20 years.

If you mix alcohol with an aspartame sweetened mixer you can increase the liver damage manifold and also become twice as intoxicated for the same amount of alcohol. You will be DUI in half the number of drinks. Plus your bourbon will taste like crap.

[collector]

Glass, would you have a link to that info ?
I had no idea and people should know !!

[Publico]

Have a cousin who had a stroke at the age of 16 (sixteen). Lost the whole left side of the coconut. Took him 6 months to walk (like a gimp - he words) and 18 months to learn to talk again. He did so by first humming then actual words came later.

[Glass]

Looking to cut back on the calories in your cocktail by mixing, say, diet soda and rum? Well, get ready for the buzz.

According to the results of a new study, this combination will leave you drunker than if you'd mixed the liquor with a sugary, caloric mixer.

"Alcohol, consumed with a diet mixer, results in higher (BrAC) Breath Alcohol Concentrations as compared to the same amount of alcohol consumed with a sugar-sweetened mixer," says Cecile Marczinski (http://artscience.nku.edu/departments/psychology/facstaff/ft-faculty/marczinski.html), a cognitive psychologist who authored the new study.

Why? Turns out that sugar slows down the absorption of alcohol from the stomach to the bloodstream.
"In other words, it is not that diet soda accelerates intoxication. Rather, the sugar in regular soda slows down the rate of alcohol absorption," explains Dennis Thombs (https://profile.hsc.unt.edu/profilesystem/viewprofile.php?pid=10793140&onlyview=1), a professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. He published a paper with similar findings.

Mixing Alcohol with diet soda may make you drunker (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/01/31/170748045/why-mixing-alcohol-with-diet-soda-may-make-you-drunker)

I'll need to chase down the liver damage one. I think I first read that on AJ's site. Not sure.

[1970 silver art]

Sedentary lifestyle and bad food choice = Increased risk factors leading to higher risk of stroke. Not surprising to me.