Example of incomplete research-information

[LightLover]

This is why you should look very good at which info you get, and which not.
You can learn from this example, that nutrients are sometimes are compared
in a wrong way:

The research below talks about to prefer veggies above fruit, because
there is a benefit of high Vit E intake, but there is no discussion about the possibility eating avocado's (which is a fruit!) also high in VIT E, in a high fruitdiet.
Maybe the research is not inadequate, but the presentation to us surely is, and is not complete in arguments.--
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source: www.mercola.com


Eating More Veggies -- Not Fruit -- Keeps Your Brain Young


Eating vegetables, but not fruits, can help slow the rate of mental decline in older adults. Researchers studied more than 3,700 Chicago seniors, who completed food frequency questionnaires and two or more cognitive tests over the course of six years.

Those who ate 2.8 servings of vegetables a day or more slowed their rate of cognitive decline by roughly 40 percent, the equivalent of about five years. Green leafy vegetables had the strongest effect, and the older the person, the greater the slowdown in mental decline.

Fruit consumption was not associated with cognitive change, which may be due to the fact that vegetables contain higher amounts of vitamin E. Vegetables are also often consumed with fats such as salad dressings that increase the absorption of vitamin E.

Rush University Medical Center October 23, 2006

Neurology October 24, 2006; 67(8): 1370-1376

[juliebove]

I've seen a much longer, but similar article on a realible website. I don't have a link offhand or I'd post it. It didn't say not to eat fruit but that vegetables were better in some ways than fruits and that we should eat more of them percentage-wise than fruits. I wouldn't believe anything I read at the Mercola website no matter how nicely it was presented. I've just seen too many untruths there.