From the BBC:
Five-a-day has little impact on cancer, study finds
Eating more fruit and vegetables* has only a modest effect on protecting against cancer, a study into the link between diet and disease has found. The study of 500,000 Europeans joins a growing body of evidence undermining the high hopes that pushing "five-a-day" might slash Western cancer rates. The international team of researchers estimates only around 2.5% of cancers could be averted by increasing intake...
Can you feel a 'but' coming?
... But experts stress eating fruit and vegetables is still key to good health.
* The BBC hedge their bets by using a picture of some tomatoes, which are strictly speaking a fruit (they contain seeds) but are usually sold as vegetables.
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8 comments:
Ah, yes. That was an excellent story.
I would imagine that the fruit involved was supermarket fruit which has been irradiated to remove all nutrients, is full of pesticide residue and washed in chlorine just to finish it off. You may as well eat the plastic wrapping
All fruit and veg is full of pesticide: if plants didn't manufacture their own pesticides inside their cells, they would have died out aeons ago.
The rest of your comment is equally laughable. The reason that "five a day" isn't life-saving might well be related to the fact that there never was any evidence for the proposition in the first place.
There's no evidence that wombat terrine fails to extend life.
"D"... It certainly fails to extend the life of the Wombat!
This is hilarious - really sums up the skewed logic of the health nazis.
It must be strange to be one of the 'Five a day' advisors working in the NHS or education system. Its a bit like 1984. Suddenly black is white and everything they were telling people was true is reversed. What will they do? Continue as if nothing has happened? Or try and create some other myth of the advantages of fruit & veg?
Of course the correct course of action is for the next govt to sack the lot of them and stop telling its population what it should and shouldn't eat.
"Of course the correct course of action is for the next govt to sack the lot of them and stop telling its population what it should and shouldn't eat."
Whereas what this government really wants to do (and may yet) is bring back rationing.
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