Eating your vegetables will keep you young: study

(AFP) - Vegetables are brain food, according to new study which found that eating veggies can help prevent cognitive decline in the elderly.

"Compared to people who consumed less than one serving of vegetables a day, people who ate at least 2.8 servings of vegetables a day saw their rate of cognitive change slow by roughly 40 percent," study author Martha Clare Morris of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago said in a press release.

"This decrease is equivalent to about five years of younger age."

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