How to fight strokes with food

A magnesium-rich diet may lower your risk of a stroke.

By Madeline Cravit

Updated November 2, 2012

Add as preferred on Google(opens in a new tab)

Masterfile

Here’s another great reason to eat lots of leafy greens:
A magnesium-rich diet may lower your risk of a stroke. After compiling 45 years of studies on over 240,000 people, researchers found that for every extra 100 mg of magnesium people eat a day, their risk of having a blood-clot-induced stroke fell by nearly 10 percent.

Bottom line:
Fill your diet with natural sources of magnesium like beans, nuts, whole grains, arugula and spinach. Women should get 310 to 320 mg a day.

The very best of Chatelaine straight to your inbox.

FILED UNDER:

Copy link

More Like This

Health

Ticks Are Becoming More Prevalent In Canada. Here’s How To Protect Yourself

Tick happens. An expert weighs in on preventing tick bites—and what to do if you find a tick on you.

Health

Can These Over-The-Counter Drugs Really Provide Perimenopausal Symptom Relief?

The one-two punch of allergy meds and antacids has gone viral online for alleviating the most miserable parts of perimenopause.

Meet the Women Shaping the Way We Talk About Weight

“I Dismissed It as Menopause”—One Woman’s Endometrial Cancer Story

When Julia experienced abnormal bleeding and persistent pain, she assumed it was part of aging. Today, she and a medical oncologist are urging women to pay closer attention to symptoms that are too often normalized.

Chatelaine Summer 2026 cover, featuring a woman biting into a burger.

Subscribe to Chatelaine!

Sandwiches! Sundaes! Jello shots! Plus the lowdown on the female desire pill, women who hit major life milestones at 50 and guest editor Meredith Shaw's all-Canadian summer lookbook.