Here we are again, another scientific study says to eat more fruits and vegetables.   The University of Oxford published this latest one in the European Heart Journal just out, after years of study, involving 300,000 participants from eight different European countries.  Eating more fruits and vegetables helps reduce risks of heart disease significantly, they discovered.

The study recommends eight (8) servings of fruits and vegetables each day, not just the five (5) previously recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (abandoned in 2007) and the USDA, among other groups.

If you cannot manage all eight servings a day (and it’s actually not that difficult), increasing any amounts can be helpful to your heart, say the researchers. Every additional serving above two per day brings a four percent decrease in the rate of heart disease deaths, researchers discovered.

So, as I’ve also said and written for many years – eat more vegetables, eat more fruit!

A related article at ABC news.