More conflicting messages about your ‘five-a-day’ .. as it seems that now ‘three-a-day’ is fine!
Canadian scientists examined 135,000 healthy people on five continents , following them for a decade, during which time 5,800 died. Those who had three or four portions of fruit and veg were 22 per cent less likely to die during the study than those who ate one, after adjusting for their lifestyle.
The risk did not get any lower with higher fruit and vegetable consumption , even in those who had more than eight a day, researchers told the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Barcelona.
“If you reach three to four servings you reach the maximum benefit you need,” said Andrew Mente of McMaster University in Ontario, who presented the results. “This is good news, because it is much more feasible to achieve three to four servings than it is to to achieve more than five a day.”