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IN THE concluding part of our series about how eating a plant- based diet can keep you young and disease free, leading American botanist Dr JAMES DUKE explains how a diet rich in plants and herbs can help prevent Alzheimer's disease, poor hearing and eyesight, and heart conditions.
LAST week, we saw how plants supply an array of vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals, many of them antioxidants, which prevent and even reverse the ageing process by neutralising the free radicals which help to cause it.See the full content of this document
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Eat Yourself Young ; the Plant Based Foods That Really Can Help You See and Hear Better - and Even Fight Alzheimer's
The more plant foods you eat - fruit, vegetables, herbs, nuts , seeds and wholegrains - the more antioxidants you get, and the healthier, and younger you become. This week we look at how eating plants can help you to beat four more of the most common conditions which plague us as we get older.
Alzheimer'sEXPERTS still aren't sure what causes the memory loss and personality changes characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. But they do know that the brain chemical acetylch...See the full content of this document
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