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A possible brain food that you've probably never heard of
Choline may labor in obscurity — if you haven't heard of it, you're in the majority — but it's an essential nutrient that does important work in the body.
And now there's some research that lends some credence to claims that the nutrient may be something of a "brain food" that fends off cognitive decline in old age.
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