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Eating Large Amounts of Fruits, Vegetables May Benefit Health

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday February 25 2017, @12:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-you-can-eat-and-then-some dept.

butthurt writes:

Researchers at Imperial College London have performed a meta-analysis of 95 studies concerning the consumption of fruits and vegetables. They found that the greater the amount of such foods that was eaten, the greater the beneficial effects on health and longevity were—up to the largest amounts that had been studied. Effects included lessened risks of premature death, of cardiovascular disease, of stroke and of cancer.

Fruit and vegetable intake and the risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all-cause mortality–a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies has been published in the 22 February International Journal of Epidemiology.

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday February 26 2017, @05:16AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Sunday February 26 2017, @05:16AM (#471744) Journal

    > An apple has more fructose than a potato as is only about as nutritious if not less so.

    Consumption of fruits including "apples or pears," according to the NHS' report about this analysis, was associated with lower risks of coronary heart disease, stroke, cardiovascular disease, and death.

    > Steve Jobs ate [a] lot of fruit and ended up dying of pancreatic cancer:

    Again according to the NHS write-up, consumption of cruciferous vegetables was associated with lower risk of cancer. No connection between fruit consumption and cancer risk was mentioned by them.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26 2017, @04:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 26 2017, @04:35PM (#471903)
    Yeah apparently Steve Jobs ate lots of fruit and didn't die of a heart attack.

    On the flip side, eat lots of transfats and you lower your odds of dying of cancer :).