A more detailed article at Reuters:
Fruits and vegetables linked to stroke prevention
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/08/us-stroke-diet-prevention-idUSKBN0DO1L320140508
“The researchers found that citrus fruits, leafy vegetables and apples and pears were the specific types of greenery linked to reduced stroke risk.”
Go back to giving children whole milk...it fills you up and is much better than any fruit juice or soda or water.
This is a meta-analysis of cohort studies - in other words, it's observational, not interventional.
Observational studies are at best suggestive. Drawing conclusions from them is a mistake.
It's clear that people who eat more fruits and vegetables are healthier - but is that because fruits and vegetables make them healthier, or that people who care about their health eat more fruits and vegetables? These types of studies cannot answer that question.
Historically, we've drawn the wrong conclusion from observational studies about 80% of the time. It was drawing wrong conclusions from observational studies that lead us to conclude that hormone replacement therapy would reduce heart disease in women, when exactly the opposite turned out to be true. Ditto for the idea that eating less salt would reduce blood pressure, or eating less saturated fat would reduce heart disease.
It's well past the time when we should stop accepting this sort of crap as legitimate science.
Why is this news?
and not !!! Oh maybe !! or not !
Eat more fruit and veggies!