Eight enough fruit?

摘要

Is It time to alter the advice to eat five portions of fruit and veg a day to a whopping eight daily doses? That's a key question raised by an eight-year study of 300,000 Europeans in eight countries, which found that eating eight portions daily reduced the risk of heart disease by 22 per cent, compared with people who ate fewer than three portions (European Heart Journal, DOI: io.iO93/eurheartj/ehq465).