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If you click on the link to the NYTimes article or watch today’s TV, it may have a segment on this topic, but if you read the actual study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study, which involved 478,478 people followed for a median of 8.7 years.

People who ate an extra 200 g of fruits and vegetables — equivalent to about 1.5 or 2 extra servings — showed a small but statistically significant 4% reduction in the risk of developing any cancer. If you increase it by 200 g, then you would have this 4% reduction. Only about 20% of the study participants ate the recommended 5 portions of fruits and vegetables each day.

So what does that mean? Eat your real vegetables! Fries and onion rings don’t count :)