While the health benefits of vegetables are tremendous they get lost in the American or Western diet of red meat, 
dairy products, grains, and dark cola drinks. This kind of food consumption constitutes an acidic diet, which allows diseases the desired environment from which to grow and spread.
Your body is designed to be slightly alkaline and this is one of the primary health benefits of vegetables.
But what really intrigued me to write this post is a study out of Neurology. This study involved 3,718 Chicago area men and women aged 65 and older.
Chicago is the land of deep dish pizza (Giordano’s is the Best) and all beef hot dogs (especially those from Portillo’s). Sometimes the only vegetables consumed are the dark relish added to the hot dog.
These study participants were followed for 6 years and what the researchers found was startling.