Quantity and variety in fruit and vegetable intake and risk of coronary heart disease

Dietary guidelines recommend increasing fruit and vegetable intake and, most recently, have also suggested increasing variety.We prospectively examined the independent roles of quantity and variety in fruit and vegetable intake in relation to incident coronary heart disease (CHD).We prospectively followed 71,141 women from the Nurses' Health Study (1984-2008) and 42,135 men from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study (1986-2008) who were free...