<http://schema.org/articleBody>
" Frankie Muniz, 27, who starred in the sitcom &amp;amp;#8220;Malcolm in the Middle,&amp;amp;#8221; recently tweeted about having a stroke on Tuesday: &amp;amp;#8220;Have to start taking care of my body!&amp;quot; he joked. &amp;quot;Getting old!&amp;amp;#8221; While you might typically think of the elderly when it comes to people with the highest stroke risk, experts say that younger people are now at higher risk for having a stroke than ever before. In fact, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics from recent years show a sharp rise in strokes in adults under the age of 44. And, a study released last month from the journal Neurology, showed stroke risk rise in whites from 26 per 100,000 in 1994 to 48 per 100,000 by 2005. The number of African-American&amp;#x27;s suffering strokes rose from 83 to 128 per 100,000. What&amp;#x27;s going on? Experts point to increasing rates of obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes. Eeks! Kind of alarming, don&amp;#x27;t you think? P.S. 6 superfoods for heart health. And, nutritional trivia: What the heck is xanthan gum, and is it healthy? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.glamour.com/health-fitness/blogs/vitamin-g/2012/12/why-are-more-people-in-their-2>