People stop eating lots of fruits and veggies not because they don’t know how to cook them, but because they’re too expensive, hard to buy often, and there’s just too much to eat every day.

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Effect of increasing fruit and vegetable intake by dietary intervention on nutritional biomarkers and attitudes to dietary change: a randomised trial

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

After the study ended, people were asked why they stopped eating lots of fruits and veggies — and they said it was too expensive, too much work to shop often, or they got too much food, not because they didn’t know how to cook or eat healthy.

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Source Study

Effect of increasing fruit and vegetable intake by dietary intervention on nutritional biomarkers and attitudes to dietary change: a randomised trial

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DOI: 10.1007/s00394-017-1469-0

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