A new study suggests that eating three bananas a day could cut your risk of having a stroke by 21 percent.
"This risk reduction would be translated into a reduction of as many as 1,155,000 stroke deaths per year on a worldwide scale," write the authors of this massive study, which followed over 250,000 individuals for over thirty years and was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
The key factor in our peely yellow friends is potassium, which helps to lower blood pressure and provide other benefits to cardiovascular health. One of these benefits appears to be a reduction in the risk of blood clots forming in the brain, which causes strokes.
