from American Heart Association journal, Circulation
There is a strong association between eating more fruits and vegetables and reducing risk of heart disease among middle-age adults. But there’s a catch. We should not assume we can wait until we are older to eat healthy. Researchers at the Minneapolis Heart Institute wrote in the American Heart Association journal, Circulation that eating more fruits and vegetables as young adults may produce measurable improvement in heart and blood vessel health years later. They found people who ate the most fruit and vegetables at the start of the study had twenty-six percent less risk of developing calcified coronary plaque twenty years later, compare to those who ate the least amount. The benefit of fruits and vegetables was apparent even after other factors were taken into consideration.