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Leafy green vegetables may cut glaucoma risk

Kathy Hubbard Columnist | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 9 years, 8 months AGO
by Kathy Hubbard Columnist
| January 20, 2016 6:00 AM

“Eat your vegetables!” Yes, that’s your mother talking and now is a good time to start listening. Study results published in Health Day this week say that the risk of glaucoma drops by 20 percent or more for those who consume vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli, kale, spinach, cabbage, chard and other greens (you know, collard, turnip, mustard, etc.).

That’s a salad bowl full of good information. “We found those consuming the most green leafy vegetables had a 20 to 30 percent lower risk of glaucoma,” said study leader Jae Kang. Kang is an assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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