LEAFY GREENS MINDS

EATING Leafy greens may help keep minds sharp.

TO age will, we must eat well -there's been a lot of evidence that heart-healthy diets help protect the brain.

The latest good news :

A study recently published in Neurology finds that healthy seniors who had daily helpings of leafy green vegetables -such as spinach, kale and collard greens -had a slower rate of cognitive decline,  compared to those who tended to eat little or no greens.

''The association is quite strong,'' says study author Martha Clare Morris, a professor of  nutrition science at  Rush Medical college in Chicago.

She also directs the Rush Institute for Healthy Aging.

The research included 960 participants of the Memory and Aging Project. The average age is 81, and none of them have dementia.

Each year the participants undergo a battery of tests  to assess their memory.

[Agencies]