It appears that a vegan diet strongly protects you against strokes. Nevertheless, a stroke could happen even to a long-term vegan, and it happened to me. However, it was quite mild (as strokes go), I have not changed my diet, and I recovered completely. I therefore offer this essay as a kind of “man bites dog” story as well as a warning that vegans should be aware that as we get older stuff tends to happen more — just not as much as it does to nonvegans. (And, activists, watch those stress levels!) For general information about nutrition and disease, including information about strokes, I suggest the site NutritionFacts.org, which has informative videos such as “How to Prevent a Stroke” and “Preventing Strokes with Diet.”
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