Health and Nutrition Letter

Studies Suggest Folate from Food May Protect Against Some Strokes and Alzheimer’s Disease

October 2005

Abstract

Need another reason to eat your leafy greens? Two new studies suggest that folate, a B vitamin found in green leafy vegetables, dried beans and some other vegetables and fruits, may help protect against hemorrhagic stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.

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