08 Mar 2019 --- Incorporating more fruit and vegetables into one’s diet may reduce the risk of death due to heart disease and increase longevity. This is according to research from the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Epidemiology and Prevention, Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions 2019. The findings showed that replacing one portion of unhealthy foods per day with one portion of healthy foods and increasing the consumption of fruit and vegetables reduces the risk of death by 10 percent.
