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GENERAL NEUROLOGY

Eat Your Vegetables, Granny

Vegetables help older patients keep their wits about them, but fruit appears to have no effect on preventing cognitive decline, according to researchers from Rush Medical Center in Chicago.

Two servings of vegetables a day averted the equivalent of five years of mental aging in people older than 65, Martha Clare Morris, Sc.D., and colleagues, reported in the Oct. 24 issue of Neurology.