Brain food: Beat cognitive decline with daily serving of green veg

Researchers have found that eating just one serving of green leafy vegetables a day can slow down age-related cognitive decline, writes Margaret Jennings.

Although the profile of the modern-day nana may have changed from when granny said ‘eat up your greens’ back in the day, her advice, it seems, has a timeless wisdom about it, writes Margaret Jennings.

You could, in fact, say that she was using her grey matter — researchers at Rush University in Chicago who did a study of 81-year-olds found that just one serving of green leafy vegetables a day was linked to slowing down age-related cognitive decline.