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Study Highlights:

• Most pre-packaged meals and snacks for toddlers contain high amounts of sodium.
• Some toddler meals had as much as 630 mg of sodium per serving.

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Study Highlights:

• Sugar-sweetened beverages may be linked to about 180,000 deaths in the world each year.
• Countries in the Caribbean/Latin America had among the highest death rates from diabetes due to consumption of sugary beverages.
• About 25,000 deaths in the United States each year may be associated with sugar-sweetened drinks.

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• Eating lots of Southern cuisine is linked to increased stroke risk.
• A Southern-style diet includes fried foods, organ meats, sugary drinks and a lot of salt.
• African-Americans are five times more likely to eat Southern foods, which may help explain their higher stroke risk

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• Visible signs of aging may predict your risk of heart disease.
• A receding hairline, baldness, earlobe crease and yellow fatty deposits on the eyelids were among signs of aging associated with an increased risk of heart disease.

• Recreational cocaine users may have higher blood pressure, stiffer arteries and thicker heart muscle walls than non-users — all of which can cause a heart attack.
• The Australian study is the first to document some of these cardiovascular abnormalities in seemingly healthy cocaine users long after the immediate effects of cocaine have worn off.

• Eating low-fat dairy foods was associated with a reduced risk of stroke in adult men and women compared to those who ate full-fat dairy foods.
• Low-fat dairy is one part of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet, which effectively reduces blood pressure, a major risk factor for stroke.

• If your brother or sister had a stroke, your risk of having one may be at least 60 percent higher.
• Your risk of stroke at age 55 or younger is almost double if your sibling had a stroke at 55 or younger.
• Make sure to tell your doctor if any of your siblings had a stroke, and pay greater attention to the things that put you at risk for a stroke, such as poor diet, lack of exercise and high blood pressure.

• Women who drank two or more sugar-sweetened beverages daily experienced increasing waist circumferences, developed high triglycerides, and a high risk for type 2 diabetes.
•  Women may have a greater chance for developing cardiovascular disease risk factors from sugar-sweetened drinks because they require fewer calories than  men .

• High blood pressure is related to the development of age-related vascular cognitive impairment.
• Maintaining a healthy heart may also maintain a healthy functioning brain, according to the statement.
• Screening elderly patients for heart and stroke risk factors may also identify those at risk of dementia.

• Overweight and obese women and children underestimate their body weight.
• Almost half of the mothers with overweight and obese children think that their children’s weight is normal.
• Obese images appear to have become acceptable norms in some families; thereby, increasing the risk for cardiovascular disease.