From: Imperial College London | By Kate Wighton
Eating More Fruits and Vegetables May Prevent Millions of Premature Deaths
Excerpt: “A fruit and vegetable intake above five-a-day shows major benefit in reducing the chance of heart attack, stroke, cancer and early death.This is the finding of new research, led by scientists from Imperial College London, which analysed 95 studies on fruit and vegetable intake.
The study, which was a meta-analysis of all available research in populations worldwide, included up to 2 million people, and assessed up to 43,000 cases of heart disease, 47,000 cases of stroke, 81,000 cases of cardiovascular disease, 112,000 cancer cases and 94,000 deaths.”
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