Fruits and Vegetables: Nature’s Medicine Chest: Eat and Live Long
In today’s news is something we should all be concerned about: someone has been reading Dr. Lane’s playbook of life!! They must be found and… thanked!
My philosophy is that everyone should run (not walk) to the produce section and eat hearty and eat long – this is where you should spend your time when you shop in a grocery.
Studies indicate that eating fewer than five servings of fruit and vegetables each day is linked with a higher chance of dying early, according to a large study from Sweden.
People who said they never ate fruit and vegetables died an average of three years sooner than those who ate plenty of apples, carrots and tomatoes, researchers found.
Many public health organizations worldwide recommend eating five servings of fruit and vegetables a day, but previous studies have been inconclusive on whether meeting that guideline helps improve health and by how much, researchers said.
Participants in the study were surveyed about their diets in 1997 and 1998 and reported how often they ate fruit – including oranges, apples, bananas and berries – and vegetables, such as carrots, beets, lettuce, cabbage, tomatoes and pea soup.
Nearly 11,500 of those enrolled had died by December 2010.
Participants who ate at least one serving of fruit daily lived 19 months longer than those who never ate fruit, on average. And those who ate at least three servings of vegetables per day lived 32 months longer than people who reported not eating vegetables.
Fruits and vegetables contain different types of vitamins, and fruit is generally higher in calories, Wolk noted.
SOURCE: bit.ly/18KPLWF American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, online June 26, 2013
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