{"id":579942,"date":"2010-05-26T18:50:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jacknorrisrd.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2010-05-26T18:50:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T22:50:52","slug":"more-on-the-epic-study-on-fruit-vegetables-and-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579942","title":{"rendered":"More on the EPIC Study on Fruit, Vegetables, and Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to getting a copy of the EPIC study I posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/jacknorrisrd.com\/?cat=19\">here<\/a>. The study showed that adding 200 g of fruits and vegetables per day decreased the risk of cancer by 4%. What the reports didn&#8217;t mention was that people who ate more than 647 grams of fruit and vegetables per day (the equivalent of about 2 cups of broccoli plus 2 1\/4 medium apples) had an 11% reduced risk of cancer compared to those who at only 226 g per day (the equivalent of about 3\/4 apple plus 3\/4 cup of broccoli).<\/p>\n<p>Here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/veganhealth.org\/articles\/ss\">confidence intervals<\/a>:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>Quintile<\/td>\n<td style=\"width:10px\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>Risk<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1 (0\u2013226 g\/d)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width:10px\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>\t1.00 (reference)\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2 (227\u2013338 g\/d)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width:10px\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>0.95 (0.92 to 0.99)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3 (339\u2013462 g\/d)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width:10px\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>0.91 (0.88 to 0.95)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4 (463\u2013646 g\/d)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width:10px\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>0.93 (0.89 to 0.97)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5 (\u2265647 g\/d)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width:10px\">&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td>\t0.89 (0.85 to 0.93)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.jacknorrisrd.com\/~ff\/jacknorrisrdcom?a=vTg0kttWiYc:QrL45UZ4XYc:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jacknorrisrdcom?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.jacknorrisrd.com\/~ff\/jacknorrisrdcom?a=vTg0kttWiYc:QrL45UZ4XYc:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/jacknorrisrdcom?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/jacknorrisrdcom\/~4\/vTg0kttWiYc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally got around to getting a copy of the EPIC study I posted on here. The study showed that adding 200 g of fruits and vegetables per day decreased the risk of cancer by 4%. What the reports didn&#8217;t mention was that people who ate more than 647 grams of fruit and vegetables per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}