Thinking Green: The Surprising Benefits of Leafy Vegetables

In this episode of The Well Nurtured Brain, Dr. Pamela Hutchison ND explores a 2018 study that asked this question: 

“How does the consumption of green leafy vegetables affect the risk of age-related cognitive decline?”

The surprising findings reveal an often overlooked aspect of human health.  The fact that  what we do in small ways, every day, with our diet, can effect big changes over time.

In today’s episode we discuss

1. The impressive potential protective effect of regular greens intake.

2. Two additional studies that support these findings.

3. What amount and types of greens were associated with good outcomes.

Episode References: 

1.  Nutrients and bioactives in green leafy vegetables and cognitive decline: Prospective study.

Morris MC, Wang Y, Barnes LL, Bennett DA, Dawson-Hughes B, Booth SL. Neurology. 2018 Jan 16;90(3):e214-e222. 

doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000004815. 

2.  Associations of vegetable and fruit consumption with age-related cognitive change.

Morris MC, Evans DA, Tangney CC, Bienias JL, Wilson RS.

Neurology. 2006 Oct 24;67(8):1370-6. 

doi: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000240224.38978.d8.

3. Fruit and vegetable consumption and cognitive decline in aging women.

Kang JH, Ascherio A, Grodstein F.

Ann Neurol. 2005 May;57(5):713-20. 

doi: 10.1002/ana.20476.