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Eating veggies, especially cooked ones, doesn’t reduce your risk of heart disease over time.
“Our large study did not find evidence for a protective effect of vegetable intake on the occurrence of CVD (cardiovascular disease),” said Qi Feng, an epidemiologist at the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, in a statement.
While the study found eating raw veggies could protect against heart disease, cooked vegetables did not. Any benefit went away when researchers factored in lifestyle factors such as physical activity, educational level, smoking, drinking, fruit intake, red and processed meat consumption, and use of mineral and vitamin supplements.
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People were asked at the beginning of the study how many raw and cooked vegetables they ate, and then followed for over 10 years to see if they developed heart disease.
On average, people in the UK study reported eating an average of 5 tablespoons of vegetables each day – that’s only 71 grams or one-third of a cup. About 2.5 tablespoons were raw vegetables, the other three were cooked.
“That’s so little,” said Dr. Andrew Freeman, co-chair of the American College of Cardiology’s Nutrition and Lifestyle Work Group.
Dietary guidelines in the UK call for five portions of fruits and veggies a day, with each portion being about 80 grams (1 cup), for a total of 5 cups a day.
In the US, dietary guidelines are more specific, recommending most adults eat at least 1.5 to 2 cups of fruit and 2 to 3 cups of vegetables each day as part of a healthy diet. Translating cups into tablespoons, a healthy intake of vegetables would include up to 48 tablespoons of veggies each day.
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If the recommended amount of fruits and veggies is 5-ish cups/day, and the population is only averaging around 5 Tbsp daily, then surely some are getting 5 cups (vegans and vegetarians are surely eating that much), but there's also some who had little to no veggies.
And yet apparently even the ones eating 5 cups or more daily aren't any more well protected from CVD than the ones only eating 5 Tbsp.
Or am I reading this completely wrong?
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