{"id":1996,"date":"2012-02-24T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/new-anti-stroke-drug-the-orange.html"},"modified":"2016-09-19T11:58:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T15:58:57","slug":"new-anti-stroke-drug-the-orange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"New Anti-Stroke Drug: The Orange"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/31332.jpg?ssl=1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/31332.jpg?resize=320%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"cursor: move;\" width=\"320\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">I want the patent on this really cool new anti-stroke medication called &#8230; &#8220;<u><b>the orange<\/b><\/u>&#8220;.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s a brand new drug that has many features you don&#8217;t see in other drugs.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">1. It comes pre-sliced.&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">2. You can take it on an empty stomach<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">3. It&#8217;s chewable, AND available in liquid form<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>What Are The Data?<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Women with the highest levels of the flavanone (found in oranges) in their diet were 19% less likely to have an ischemic stroke. They followed these women during 14 years of follow-up (<em style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">P<\/em>=0.04).<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Citrus fruit is the main source of these antioxidants. By the way, the juice of these fruits also showed a similar effect (reported in the April issue of&nbsp;<em style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;\">Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association).<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Everyone always thinks about Vitamin C in terms of protecting your cardiovascular system, but in this analysis of the Nurses&#8217; Health Study, the vitamin didn&#8217;t correlate with total or ischemic stroke.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><b>Bottom Line<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Unless you&#8217;re a researcher or follow nutrition like March Madness, all this will sound like blah blah blah to you. The bottom line is that you need to take your one-a-day, every day. And that healthy one-a-day?? It&#8217;s called a piece of fruit.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">By the way, this particular stroke preventer also happens to be really tasty!!&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/Cardiology\/Prevention\/31332?utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&amp;utm_source=WC&amp;eun=g443051d0r&amp;userid=443051&amp;email=will@willclower.com&amp;mu_id=\">Medical News:An Orange a Day Keeps Stroke Away &#8211; in Cardiovascular, Prevention from MedPage Today<\/a><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/willclowerblog.blogspot.com\/\" layout=\"button_count\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/willclowerblog.blogspot.com\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/willclowerblog.blogspot.com\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willclowerblog.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Clower Articles\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WillClowerOnTheCultureOfHealth.1.gif?w=735&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/willcloweraudio.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Will Clower Audicles\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/WillClowerAudicles.1.gif?w=735&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"border: 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want the patent on this really cool new anti-stroke medication called &#8230; &#8220;the orange&#8220;.&nbsp;It&#8217;s a brand new drug that has many features you don&#8217;t see in other drugs.&nbsp;1. 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