Vegetables are good for mental health

Vegetables are main part of everyone’s diet. Regular vegetables intake helps elderly people fight memory loss and other related problems which are naturally occurring as the age is increasing by slowing down the rate of mental and cognitive decline. A recent study carried out by researchers of one of the Chicago University showed that old people should eat about 3 servings of vegetables daily in order to prevent the decline of their cognitive function and also to prevent their mental health.

According to this research the people who consume vegetables on a regularly are 40% more likely to keep from cognitive decline as compared to people who consumed less than one serving of vegetables a day. People who ate at least 2.8 servings of vegetables a day have their rate of cognitive change slow by about 40 per cent. The study was conducted on 3718 elderly individuals and results showed that vegetables are extremely beneficial when it comes to preventing mental abilities and these can also preventing memory loss and related health disorders.

Green leafy vegetables were found to work best against mental and memory problems, while yellow vegetables occupied the second-best place. On the other hand, legumes such as peanuts or lentils proved to have weak abilities of slowing down cognitive decline. But the most unexpected result of the research was that fruits regular consumption was found to have little or no effect when it came to preventing mental problems. This arise a number of questions in our mind. It may be due to the fact that the vegetables containing high amounts of vitamin E that lowers the risk of cognitive decline. Vegetables are also typically consumed with added fats such as salad dressings, and fats increase the absorption of vitamin E.