Eat Fruits and Vegetables and Live Longer?
We all know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us. But did you know they may help us live longer, too? I don't mean just resisting diabetes and cancer and heart disease -- illnesses related to obesity that can come when you don't eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Valerie DeBenedette at Reuters reports that people who ate less than five servings of fruits and vegetables a day died earlier than those who did, and 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 in a study in Sweden. And if you eat more than five servings a day? Sorry. You don't get any bonus years! Researchers studied 71,000 Swedes ages 43 to 85 for 13 years. Nearly 11,500 of those enrolled died by 2010. So did they all not eat their fruits and vegetables? The study found that people "who had reported eating no fruit or vegetables at the star...