Do calories help cause strokes?

I'm doing a report on how eating 2 many calories can help cause dieases occuring in a person's body. Do calories affect strokes in any way?

Any answers on this topic would be great! Thx

Well if you eat too many calories you'll become obese, and you'll have fat in your blood, which clogs your arteries and can cause a heart attack. You need calories to survive, and you need it from the right sources (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins). As long as you eat the right amount of calories a day (which varies from person to person), with the right health content (low fat, low cholesterol, low sodium, high nutrients, etc) then you'll be healthy. Also, even if you are thin and aren't eating too much calories, if the calories you consume are unhealthy (high sodium, high trans fat, high cholesterol), you can still be unhealthy.

I would say there's a couple main points:
1) Calories in excess are bad (causes obesity which leads to other health problems)
2) Calories from the wrong sources are bad (if you eat only deep fried food, or lots of sweets), then you're not getting the nutrients you need.

depends. based on what the food carries (nutrients, vitamins, Sat. Fat) etc.

No... your caloric intake has no effect on you as far as strokes are concerned.
Too much caloric intake can only effect you cardiovascularly, body compositionally, and cholesterol.

Look, calories are in everything we eat. You have a certain amount of calories you burn a day from different activities. You have to eat a lesser amount of calories then you burn if you want to lose and more calories then you burn a day if you want to gain. Its not Calories that cause strokes, but high cholesterol and high blood pressure caused by the foods you eat that are high in sodium (salt) or fat or carbohydrates.

Overeating too many fat calories can cause high cholesterol levels. Cholesterol can clog arteries to the brain, causing a stroke.

yes as too many help us to gain wegiht and if you gain too much weight and eat alot of the wrong foods that give us alot of calories like sugars and we gain weight our heart struggles and does not work efficiently enough its like if you had a sponge and used pebbles as calories the more pebbles you put on the sponge the flatter it gets yea so its kinda like that if you need anymore help mail me or waeva and ill give you some i have some from college about diets and that ok xx

well depends on what calories and how many, strokes are caused by blood clots to the brain. Fatty calories will obviously case fatty deposits in your veins and attires that may lead to a clot. But too many of any calorie can do that too.

Not directly. Excess calories will be stored as fat through thermogenesis. Excess fat can cause atherosclerosis (plaques in arteries) through the years. A ruptured plaque caused by physical stress, trauma, high blood pressure, etc. can end up in the cerebral arteries causing ischemic stroke. And that's in a nut shell. Good luck in your report.