Eat Healthy After a Stroke

The key to your recovery after a stroke is choosing healthy foods. The key to your recovery after a stroke is choosing healthy foods. Healthy eating will be easier once you learn to deal with new eating challenges. Preventing another stroke and staying healthy can be achieved when you take appropriate steps to control your weight and blood pressure. Making healthy food choices is a major step in the right direction, and you can enhance the impact diet plays in your risk by meeting with a registered dietitian.

Points to remember:
1)Cut out fried or greasy foods. They contribute to clogged arteries and obesity.
2)Reducing your intake of butter, meat products (especially fatty meat), eggs, stick margarine, cheese and snack foods with partially hydrogenated vegetable oils or fats.
3)Eat smaller portions more often throughout the day. Having six small meals is better for your overall health especially after a stroke.
4)Eat foods that are easy to chew, taste, and swallow, and avoid others that are not.
5)Thicken liquids to make them easier to feel in your mouth and throat.
6)Eat foods that are not too hot or cold.
7)Plan to eat a variety of foods each day.
8)Eat your biggest meal early in the day when you have the most energy. The last meal of the day can be simple, such as a sandwich or cereal.
9)Attractive, tasty, pleasant-smelling foods may enhance appetite.

These important points can can save a person from a Sudden Cardiac Arrest. Sudden Cardiac Arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the United States with over 300,000 people experiencing it every year. Upon identifying the symptoms of cardiac arrests the using an AED Equipment within the first six minutes greatly increases the survival rate.