The CDC's list of health risks associated with obesity include heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes - diseases that rank among the leading causes of premature death worldwide.

include heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes...

You're at higher risk for stroke and heart attack.

Most workers dislike the intrusive quality that I every key stroke and where I'm looking on my computer screen and how often I'm sitting down is being monitored.

The likelihood of a blood clot blocking a critical passage in the body rises enormously, which can eventually cause a heart attack or a stroke.

which can eventually cause  a heart attack or a stroke.

STROKE, DOCTORS HAD TO USE

And what about the French borrowing? Coup de grace? "Stroke of grace."

I only just found out it's not pronounced coup de grAH, meaning "stroke of fat."

SIRI: "Siri, I think I'm having a stroke."

JAMES: Yes! What? You could hear that? I was having a stroke.

DESTIN: So it's basically a very precisely calibrated syringe with a stroke of a certain throw, OK.

As well as delaying the onset of dementia, bilingual people have been shown to recover significantly better after a stroke.

What is a stroke?

Hence, if the blood doesn't reach the brain cells, they can begin to die, thus giving us a stroke.