Salad makes your brain younger: The nutrient boost improves memory, prevents dementia, study finds

( Natural News ) You may want to start eating at least one serving of salad to make your brain younger as a study found that eating salad or a serving of leafy greens every day can enhance memory and make the brain function a decade younger , according to an article published in The Daily Mail. “Projections show sharp increases in the percentage of people with dementia as the oldest age groups continue to grow in number, so effective strategies to prevent dementia are critical,” said Martha Clare Morris, an author of the study. For the study, a team of researchers from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago examined 960 individuals with an average age of 81 who did not have dementia. They observed the participants for an average of 4.7 years. As part of the study, the participants were tasked to accomplish a survey on how frequent they ate specific foods. Moreover, their thinking and memory skills were tested every year during the study period. The questionnaire included questions on how frequent and how many servings they ate of three green, leafy vegetables – spinach , with a serving being a half cup of cooked spinach, kale , collards, or greens, half cup cooked – and a lettuce salad with a serving of one cup uncooked. Then, the participants were assigned to one out of the five groups based on how frequent they consumed green, leafy vegetables. The participants in the top serving group ate an average of approximately 1.3 servings of greens a day, while those in the lowest serving group consumed an average of 0.1 servings a day. The researchers also considered other factors that could affect brain health, such as smoking, high blood pressure, obesity, education level, and amount of physical and cognitive activities. […]

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