Maintaining a healthy diet is a major part of longevity, so choose your food wisely and you can add years to your life, as previously mentioned. Here Janine Acero, NaturalNews.com, reflects on delaying brain aging by eating one serving of greens daily:

“Aging causes a lot of unwanted health issues, most notably cognitive decline and memory loss. People in their 50s are told that nothing can be done about it. But is decreased brain function really an inevitable part of aging?

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New research from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago suggests that a simple step can be taken to prevent and reverse age-related cognitive decline. Researchers found that eating one serving of green leafy vegetables a day can slow brain aging by a decade. Meanwhile, eating two servings produces even better results.

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“Adding a daily serving of green leafy vegetables to your diet may be a simple way to help promote brain health,” said study author Martha Clare Morris, a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush.

“There continues to be sharp increases in the percentage of people with dementia as the oldest age groups continue to grow in number. Effective strategies to prevent dementia are critically needed.”

Flavonoids found in leafy greens slow cognitive decline

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The Rush researchers investigated the effects on cognitive decline of the primary nutrients found in leafy greens, such as: folate (vitamin B9), alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E), phylloquinone (vitamin K1), lutein, beta-carotene, nitrate, and kaempferol.

For their study, they recruited 960 older adults aged 58 to 90 from the Rush Memory and Aging Project, which began in 1997. The participants were part of Chicago-area retirement communities and residents of senior public housing complexes.

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The researchers divided the participants into five groups based on how often they ate leafy greens. Each participant answered a food frequency questionnaire and underwent cognitive assessments for a mean period of 4.7 years.

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The researchers then compared the cognitive assessments of participants with the highest (an average of about 1.3 servings per day) and lowest vegetable intake (0.1 servings per day). They took into account age, sex, education, cognitive activities, physical activities, smoking, seafood consumption and alcohol intake and adjusted their data accordingly.

The researchers found that consumption of green leafy veggies is associated with slower cognitive decline.”

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