The Vancouver Sun has placed a special focus on health in a series called "Empowered Health." There is lots of excellent information on their site about healthy eating.
This VANCOUVER SUN REPORT says "Canadians have made slight progress in the battle to combat chronic disease through diet choices..."
While adults have slowly reduced their intake of damaging fats and stepped up their fruit and vegetable consumption over the past two decades, researchers at the Conference Board of Canada found that children’s eating habits have continually deteriorated over the same period.
This VANCOUVER SUN REPORT says "eating a variety of darkly coloured fruits and vegetables can protect your grey matter."
Healthy lifestyles benefit people at all stages of life, but she added a special word of advice to boomers: "Now is the time to be proactive about brain health."
"Many of the longer-term studies suggest that it is your health in your 50s that is more predictive of your brain health in your 70s," Greenwood said.
