{"id":5970,"date":"2017-03-07T20:46:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/?p=5970"},"modified":"2018-01-13T15:20:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T15:20:39","slug":"now-10-a-day-supplemental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zoeharcombe.com\/2017\/03\/now-10-a-day-supplemental\/","title":{"rendered":"Now 10-a-day Supplemental"},"content":{"rendered":"
Further to this post<\/a>, one of the most interesting findings of this recent study<\/a> was that individual fruits and vegetables and various categories of fruits and vegetables randomly seemed to help or not help different conditions.<\/p>\n In the following table, I have taken the findings from Tables 2-6 in the paper – for CHD, stroke, CVD, Cancer and all-cause mortality – and shared whether or not the findings were statistically significant (Y or N). I have then loosely used the term ‘helped’ where there was a statistically significant difference and “didn’t help’ where there was no statistically significant difference. (The * indicates where this particular item or category was not contained in the table for that condition).<\/p>\n Does this make sense to you? Either certain fruits and veg have magic properties or they don’t. How can we claim fruit and veg are healthy with these random results?!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Significant Difference?<\/strong><\/td>\nCHD<\/strong><\/td>\n | Stroke<\/strong><\/td>\n | CVD<\/strong><\/td>\n | Cancer<\/strong><\/td>\n | All-cause mortality<\/strong><\/td>\n | Comments<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Apples, pears<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Apples & pears help<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Bananas<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | Bananas don’t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Berries<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Berries help mortality but not the rest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Citrus Fruits<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Citrus fruits help – but not cancer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Dried Fruits<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | Dried fruits don’t help<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Fruit juice<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | But fruit juice (sometimes) does!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Grapes<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | Don’t bring grapes to hospital<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Allium vegetables<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | Garlic\/onions etc…<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Onions<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | … don’t help<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Cruciferous veg<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Cancer & dying helped but nothing cardio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Non-cruciferous veg<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | Cancer & dying NOT helped but cardio is<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Green leafy veg<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Helps, but not with cancer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Potatoes<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Spuds help mortality but not the rest<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Tomatoes<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | Not the wonder food they’re claimed to be<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Beta carotene rich F&V<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | CHD yes, CVD no? How does that work?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Vit C rich F&V<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | As above<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Raw F&V<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Even raw food ain’t that good<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Root veg<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | Root veg does nothing…<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Carrots<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | …but carrots help with CVD?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Tinned fruit<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | Y (adverse)<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | Y (adverse)<\/td>\n | Tinned fruit doesn’t help or may harm?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Broccoli<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | Don’t bother with broccoli<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Pickled veg<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | Pickled veg for stroke, but not cancer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | Salads<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | *<\/td>\n | N<\/td>\n | Y<\/td>\n | Not much helps with cancer full stop!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/p>\n | |