{"id":5963,"date":"2013-03-15T22:18:18","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T04:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5963"},"modified":"2013-03-15T22:18:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T04:18:19","slug":"coffee-and-green-tea-may-help-lower-stroke-risk-webmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/health\/coffee-and-green-tea-may-help-lower-stroke-risk-webmd\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee and Green Tea May Help Lower Stroke Risk &#8211; WebMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for some of us. peace, <em>mjh<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/stroke\/news\/20130314\/green-tea-cuts-stroke-risk?src=RSS_PUBLIC\">Coffee and Green Tea May Help Lower Stroke Risk<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The new study found:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>People who drank at least 1 cup of coffee daily had about a 20% lower risk of stroke compared to those who rarely drank it. <\/li>\n<li>People who drank 2 to 3 cups of green tea daily had a 14% lower risk of stroke, and those who had at least 4 cups had a 20% lower risk, compared to those who rarely drank it. <\/li>\n<li>People who drank at least 1 cup of coffee or 2 cups of green tea daily had a 32% lower risk of intracerebral hemorrhage, compared to those who rarely drank either beverage. Intracerebral hemorrhage happens when a blood vessel bursts and bleeds inside the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/brain\/picture-of-the-brain\">brain<\/a>. About 13% of strokes are due to this condition. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Researchers adjusted their findings to account for age, sex, and lifestyle factors like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/smoking-cessation\/default.htm\">smoking<\/a>, alcohol, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diet\/tc\/healthy-weight-what-is-a-healthy-weight\">weight<\/a>, diet, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/fitness-exercise\/guide\/default.htm\">exercise<\/a>. Green tea drinkers in the study were more likely to exercise than non-drinkers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webmd.com\/stroke\/news\/20130314\/green-tea-cuts-stroke-risk?src=RSS_PUBLIC\">Coffee and Green Tea May Help Lower Stroke Risk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for some of us. peace, mjh Coffee and Green Tea May Help Lower Stroke Risk The new study found: People who drank at least 1 cup of coffee daily had about a 20% lower risk of stroke compared to those who rarely drank it. People who drank 2 to 3 cups of green &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/health\/coffee-and-green-tea-may-help-lower-stroke-risk-webmd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coffee and Green Tea May Help Lower Stroke Risk &#8211; WebMD<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}