A recent study found that consumption of green leafy vegetables may help slow the decline in cognitive abilities—or brain function—in older adults.
The study by researchers at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts found that those who ate about one-and-a-half servings of green leafy vegetables per day had the cognitive functioning of people roughly eleven years younger than those who ate little or no leafy greens.
The finding is striking given that dementia, a decline in memory and other brain functions, affects between four and five million older Americans, and with the growing number of aging Americans, this number is expected to increase three-fold by 2050.
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