Another diet/memory loss prevention link: vegetables

Elderly people who reported eating at least 2.8 servings of vegetables a day compared to people who ate less than one serving a day saw their rate of memory loss and other mental decline slow by 40 percent over six years, according to research published in the journal Neurology.

People who ate the most green leafy vegetables such as lettuce and spinach had the least memory loss, on average. Next best were yellow vegetables such as squash and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli.

Steve - stop the presses! Sometimes, it amazes me that research needs to be done to confirm this. Yet, many of us need that extra motivation to eat their veggies every day! I'm hard pressed to find a better motivation than maintaining your mental faculties.