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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Nothing really because they just found no link between eating fruits and vegetables and not getting cancer.

But the study is far from conclusive, according to the last part of the article:

"Another possibility is that if it takes longer for cancer to develop than heart disease, the protective effect of fruits and vegetables may not have shown up in the decade-long study.

In an editorial accompanying the study, Dr. Arthur Schatzkin and Victor Kipnis of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., said errors in measuring diet may have distorted the findings.

"[T]he evidence is simply inadequate at this time to determine whether fruit and vegetable intake confers modest protection against cancer," the pair wrote.

"Researchers should recognize this uncertainty in nutrition and cancer epidemiology and do what it takes to move ahead, especially when it comes to improving exposure assessment in observational studies."

I've got dozens of links to studies that say exactly the opposite of this study, if anybody's interested....