Eating more fruit seems to help more than eating more vegetables when it comes to lowering the risk of dying from cancer.

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Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Mortality

Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis

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The study says eating more fruits and veggies lowers cancer risk, but it doesn’t say whether fruits are better than vegetables at doing so — so we can’t tell if the claim about fruit being more important is true.

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Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Mortality

Score: 66

DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.120.048996

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