Even if some studies with negative results were missing, the overall finding that eating more fruits and veggies is linked to living longer still holds up.

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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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The study talks about how eating more fruits and veggies is linked to living longer, but it never checks or mentions whether some missing studies might have skewed the results—so we can't say if the claim about publication bias is true or not.

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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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