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In the News: Veggies Give Your Brain a Boost
Eat your veggies - they're good for you! Turns out, once again, mom was right. A new long-term study shows that a diet high in vegetables helps to boost memory, and may even help prevent Alzheimer's as we age. While fruit has lots of great health benefits, researchers found that it was veggies, particularly dark green veggies such as spinach, kale and other green leafy vegetables, that helped to keep study participants quick-witted and thinking on their feet. And let's face it - who among us couldn't use a little boost when it comes to our memory and brainpower? Remember to eat a rainbow of colors to get a variety of nutrients.
Here are just a few Vegetarian you might have heard of!

Aristotle, the Greek philosopher
Brigitte Bardot, French actress
Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Schiffer, actress
Clint Eastwood, actor
Clint Walker
Doris Day, actress
Dustin Hoffman, actor
George Bernard Shaw, writer
George Harrison, musician of Beatles
H. G. Wells, English writer
Johnny Cash, country musician
Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer and philosopher
Leonard Cohen, singer
Leonardo Da Vinci, Italian painter and thinker
Leonardo di Caprio, actor*
Linda Blair
Linda Carter
Linda McCartney, wife of Paul
Lindsay Wagner, actress
Martin Shaw, vegan
Ringo Starr, drummer of Beatles
Rita Moreno, actress
River Phoenix, actor
Sinead O'Connor, Irish singer
Sir Isaac Newton, physicist
Sir Stafford Cripps
Socrates, Greek philsopher, "Know thyself to be true"
Vincent van Gogh, painter
Voltaire, writer and philosopher
William Blake, writer

Of course there are thousands more