date:May 20, 2013
he study participants completed questionnaires on diet and tobacco use, which researchers defined as ever having smoked more than 100 cigarettes or regularly using cigars, pipes or smokeless tobacco.
Vegetable consumption in general did not affect Parkinsons disease risk, but as consumption of edible Solanaceae -- a flowering plant family with some species producing foods that are edible sources of nicotine -- increased, the risk of Parkinsons decreased. Peppers displayed the strongest associat