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Eating enough fruits and vegetables daily may reduce your cancer risk, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which recently launched a nationwide nutrition education campaign.
The “5 A Day for Better Health" campaign encourages Americans to eat five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables a day. The program, co-sponsored by NCI and the Produce for Better Health Foundation, is the largest government and industry sponsored nutrition education campaign ever launched.
Studies from populations all over the world show that the more fruits and vegetables eaten, the lower the cancer rate, says Peter Greenwald, M.D., director of the NCI’s Cancer Prevention and Control Program. “A great number of studies have shown that for many cancers, persons of cancer of people with low intakes.
A recent NCI survey, however, shows that over 75 percent of the population does not eat the recommened amount.
Other highlights from the survey:
• Only 8 percent of Americans believe they should be eating at least five servings of fruits and vegetables each day to be healthy.
90.4%