Fruitful veggies

How many portions of fruit and vegetables are we eating? | News | theguardian.com: "The study found that people who ate seven or more portions of fruit or vegetables a day had a 33% reduced risk of death from any cause, a 25% reduced risk of death from cancer and a 31% reduced risk of death from cardiovascular disease, compared with people who ate less than one portion per day (a portion is defined as 80 grams). Researchers adjusted their analysis for sex, age, cigarette smoking, social class, Body Mass Index, education, physical activity and alcohol intake

They also found that vegetables may lower risk more than fruit and that eating frozen or canned fruit was associated with an increased risk of death.

The five a day mantra, as the NHS explain in their Behind the Headline analysis, has always referred to the the minimum recommended level they advise. Or as they put it:

When it comes to fruit and vegetables, as long as you watch your calorie and sugar intake it is very much the case of “the more the merrier”"



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