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For many years, the nutrition [massage / message] has been "five a day" – the recommendation that five portions of fruit and vegetables are [suffice / enough] to keep disease at [day / bay] and help us to live longer. That advice has been [revised / devised] upwards. A new study suggests that people who get seven or more [potions / portions] a day are healthier. Researchers from University College London studied the dietary [habitats / habits] of 65,000 adults over a seven-year period. They [conclusion / concluded] that: "A robust inverse association [exists / exacts] between fruit and vegetable consumption and mortality, with benefits [been / seen] in up to 7-plus portions daily." In other words, if you eat more fruit and vegetables, chances are you live [longer / longevity] .

The researchers put people into five [difference / different] groups, depending [on / in] how much fruit and veg they ate. They found that those who ate seven or more portions a day had a 42 per cent lower [riskiness / risk] of death than those who ate just one portion. They [recommended / recompensed] that schools serve healthier meals and that supermarkets put more [emphasis / emphatic] on prominently displaying cheaper produce. They warned that [frozen / freezing] and canned fruit was linked to higher [mortuary / mortality] rates. Some [experts / expats] say the findings of the study should be taken with a [pinch / punch] of salt. One dietician said the findings ignored the fact that people who eat more fruit and veg are generally wealthier and thus [lead / leave] lifestyles that will help them live longer anyway.