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Mainstream medicine considered a del Davis a coke. In the mid 20th century her message was clear, you are what you eat. This is the People's Pharmacy with

Terry and Joe Grayden.

Over the last 50 years, the food industry has taken over the American diet, but does it have to be that way?

Dr. Joel Furman is author of Fast Food Genocide,

how processed food is killing us and what we can do about it.

Now I don't expect the American populace to total embrace eating to this degree of excellence,

but I still want to hold up the ideal of what people should eat if they wanted to live to be

a hundred years old without heart disease and cancer and dementia.

What's in your lunchbox?

Coming up on the people's pharmacy, find out how to eat for your health.

First, the news.

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, older people who want to preserve their brains should be careful about what they eat.

A study of more than 4,000 Dutch people with an average age of 66 found that those who reported eating more vegetables,

fruit, fish, and nuts had bigger brains than those who ate processed meat and drank sugary

beverages.

The volunteers filled out detailed dietary questionnaires and then went through

MRI brain imaging.

The investigators adjusted for other factors known to affect brain size, including age, sex, smoking, and physical activity.

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