Foods for Healthy Aging

Spinach

Spinach provides many benefits for aging adults. Carotenoids found in spinach may protect against age-related vision disease such as macular degeneration. There is also evidence that compounds in spinach help combat multiple forms of cancer including breast cancer.

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February 4, 2014

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September 15, 2014