People who eat a southern diet, heavy on deep-fried foods and sugary drinks like sweet tea and soda, are more likely to suffer a stroke, according to a new study. This study began in 2002 when researchers began to administer food surveys to more than 20,000 people in the contiguous 48 states, sorting respondents into five different diet styles. The most notable were the southern diet fried foods, processed meats, red meat, eggs, sweet drinks and whole milk and the plant-based diet fruits, vegetables, juice, cereal, fish, poultry, yogurt, nuts and whole-grain bread.
Those who ate six meals per week consisting of foods in the Southern diet had a 41 percent...