date:Sep 08, 2016
The studys findings help us contextualise an earlier Plainfacts article which showed that an increase in fruit and vegetable consumption in India (a low-income country) has been much less than the increase in China (a low-middle income country). This is despite the fact that Indias horticultural production has almost tripled since 1991-92.
The paper quotes an earlier Lancet study which showed that the lack of enough fruits and vegetables in the diet was responsible for 1.7 million deaths globa