Take The Steps

Take the Steps
By now, you know that I am all about steps, especially as it pertains to being fit. Studies show consistent exercise helps to ward off some chronic conditions like high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. However, today, I would like to focus on how to take steps for stroke prevention by knowing the risks.

Take The Steps

 

I am not a licensed medical professional, but my tenure in the healthcare industry has afforded me knowledge. This consciousness encourages my awareness of illnesses that can besiege one as they age. One great way I share these realizations is through the national health calendar.

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May is Stroke Awareness Month. One of the biggest misconceptions about stroke is that it only happens to the elderly. Each year, nearly 800,000 people in the United States have a stroke.  That’s one stroke every 40 seconds.  Sorry for the morbid statistics! For every person who dies from a stroke, more than five times that many will survive, and for them, the physical damage it causes can be enormous.

While age is one of the risk factors and your chances for a stroke increase with age, anyone can have a stroke.

What is a stroke?
A stroke is a sudden loss of brain function. A stroke occurs when a blood vessel that carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain is either blocked by a clot or bursts (ruptures).  When that happens, part of the brain cannot get the blood (and oxygen) it needs, so it and the brain cells die.

Take the Steps on Stroke Awareness

What are the types of stroke?

Take the Steps for Stroke Awareness

According to the National Stroke Association, the most recognizable symptoms of a stroke include these 4 significant signs of stroke, act F.A.S.T.

Take the Steps Do you know the risk factors for stroke? Some stroke risk factors are hereditary. Others are a function of natural processes. Still others result from a person’s lifestyle.

Take the Steps
You can help prevent stroke by making healthy lifestyle choices. A healthy lifestyle includes the following:

–  Eating a healthy diet.
–  Maintaining a healthy weight.
–  Getting enough exercise.
–  Not smoking.
–  Limiting alcohol use.

I hope this information has encouraged you to learn the risks and symptoms of stroke so you can take steps to prevent one. Have a great week!
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