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Worried about your diet?
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Fruit is supposed to be enormously important in terms of our (ill-defined) general health. Although no-one knows what five portions are, and the data for specific disease risks are few, the public health message to eat fruit and vegetables is clearrather like Go to work on an Egg or Drink a Pint of Milk a Day. But this sceptical view does not conceal the fact that ripe fruits are an important part of the human diet.
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