Study: Eating fruit daily could lower the risk of heart disease

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last updated 8 January 2015

New research suggests that eating fruit every day could reduce the risk of heart disease by as much as 40 percent.

A new study by the European Society of Cardiology in the European Heart Journal found a strong connection between consuming fruit and having a healthy heart. The researchers looked at more than 451,680 participants over a seven-year period, asking the study's subjects to report their fruit consumption, whether that was never, monthly, one to three days a week, four to six days a week, or daily.