'Exact' amount of vegetables you should eat each day to help fight off dementia

Kathleen Garcia-Benson has outlined the brain-boosting foods that can help fend off dementia (Image: Wesley Soares Ferracini/Moment RF/Getty Images) A dietitian has dished out the 'exact' amount of vegetables you need to eat daily to help stave off "disabling dementia" as you age. Kathleen Garcia-Benson, from Top Nutrition Coaching , has outlined the brain-boosting foods that can help fend off dementia , with the famed Mediterranean diet also taking centre stage, reports Gloucestershire Live . She shed light on a study involving more than 40,000 participants that suggested that even a modest daily helping of vegetables could slash dementia risk by up to 12% in men and 13% in women.

Kathleen revealed: "In a prospective cohort study with over 60,000 participants, a Mediterranean diet was associated with a lower risk of dementia, regardless of genetic predisposition to the disease. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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