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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2000 92(22):1794-1795; doi:10.1093/jnci/92.22.1794
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Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 92, No. 22, 1794-1795, November 15, 2000
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Recent Studies Cloud Link Between Diet and Cancer

Geri Clark

Folk wisdom that eating fruits and vegetables is healthy found scientific backing when several bodies of research, some now more than 30 years old, showed that people whose diets were high in fruits and vegetables seemed to have a reduced risk of some kinds of cancer, most notably lung and colorectal cancers.

The evidence appeared so strong that in 1991 the National Cancer Institute started the "5 A Day for Better Health" program to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables in the general population. (That program is currently undergoing a review, and a report is scheduled to be out this week.) By 1997, when a group of epidemiologists convened by the American Institute for . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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