Eat Your Vegetables!! (Seven a day)

A new study reported by the BBC confirms that vegetables are good for you!

 

Eating seven or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day is healthier than the five currently recommended and would save more lives, researchers say.

A study of 65,226 men and women indicated the more fruit and vegetables people ate, the less likely they were to die - at any age.

The University College London researchers used the National Health Survey, which collects data from people in the UK each year through questionnaires and nurse visits, to look at diet and lifestyle.

Risk of death by any cause was reduced by:

• 14% by eating one to three portions of fruit or veg per day
• 29% for three to five
• 36% for five to seven
• 42% for seven or more

Fresh vegetables had the strongest protective effect, followed by salad and then fruit.

This is an amazingly strong effect. You can improve your health dramatically by eating more vegetables!