While your regular "poster" is by the ocean (with sunscreen on), a fellow gardener Alison authored a couple of posts. Read and heed! Thanks, Alison.
You’ve heard the stories: An elderly woman at home accidentally starts a house fire when she forgets she is cooking something on the stove. Dementia is nobody’s fault, but there are things that can be done to help avoid it or slow its progress.
One thing that can be done – and that is related to this blog – is to EAT YOUR VEGETABLES (and fruits).
Imagine a little tin box, set out in a hailstorm. One piece of hail might give it a little dent, but lots of hail will leave it looking pretty beat up. “Free radicals” are like pieces of hail in our brain – they beat up our brain cells, and those cells may not get replaced.
The nutrients from fruits and vegetables provide something like an armor shield for our brain cells. Actually, what they do is keep free radicals from even forming – they are “antioxidants,” and “oxidization” is what produces free radicals.
The problem is, it seems nobody really likes to eat vegetables. It’s no wonder – vegetables these days are selectively grown for their ability to hold up during long shipping trips and still look good. Major vegetable producers don’t seem to care how the product tastes at the end of its journey. And to add insult to injury, they cost a lot.
Growing your own vegetables is an eye-opening (or should I say taste-bud-opening?) experience. For cost of a couple of bell peppers at the store, you can plant a row of them – plus tomatoes – in a garden.
It’s not until you’ve tasted home-grown and vine-ripened produce that you realize what you’ve been missing from the veggies at the store.
Become a home-grown fruit and vegetable addict – and save your brain!
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