Strokes are the second most common cause of death worldwide. Moreover, stroke is a leading cause of disability and so preventing strokes in the first place—what’s called primary prevention—should therefore, be a key public health priority.
Today it is generally believed that eating lots of fiber helps prevent obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases such as stroke. All the best observational studies to date found that fiber appears to significantly protect against the risk of stroke. Different strokes for different folks, depending, evidently, on how much fiber they ate.
One extra apple a day might translate to meaningful differences in arterial stiffness in adulthood
