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Eating vegetables every day is linked to living longer, but eating more than three servings a day doesn’t help much more.

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Fruit and vegetable consumption and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

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This big study found that eating one more serving of veggies each day lowers your risk of dying from any cause by about 5%, and the more you eat up to about five servings, the better — so three servings is still a great goal.

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Fruit and vegetable consumption and mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer: systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies

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DOI: 10.1136/bmj.g4490

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