It's not the best news for soda drinkers. But results from research carried out by the University of Miami, appear to suggest that drinking soda could put people at higher risk of cardiovascular diseases, such as a heart attack or stroke.

Although diet sodas may help preserve the waistline, those drinking them were no less likely to succumb to vascular conditions.

Would you recognize the signs of a stroke if you saw them? It's worrying that not many people do. With strokes accounting for around 137,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, they are the third most common cause of death in the U.S. and the second in the UK.

Knowing what to look out for could make the difference between life and death as every second counts. There is however, an easy way of remembering how to recognize the early signs of a stroke.