Eat Your Fruits and Veggies, Protect Your Heart, and Save Billions of Dollars in Health Care Costs
Does nine servings a day sound like a heavy lift? Well, consider this: If we ate just one more serving a day -- one banana or a large carrot -- we would save $5 billion annually in health care expenditures and prevent more than 30,000 heart-related deaths.
Elliott Negin, Contributor
Senior Writer, Union of Concerned Scientists