Fruit and Veggies Not So Preventative

Darn! Another easy answer to a complicated problem bites the dust. It turns out that eating lots and lots of fruit and vegetables will neither prevent cancer nor speed your recovery from cancer.

You would think people would be backing off from the 'healthful' eating craze by now. The main reason these things don't work is that while the body does need certain amounts of certain chemicals (for example: scurvy is a result of a lack vitamin c [Ascorbic acid]) there has been no study to date that shows an opposite (and positive effect) for packing in (eating extra amounts of) certain chemicals.

Just do like mother told you: eat a balanced diet and you'll do fine.