As we all know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month.  During this month, women receive lots of advice on prevention.  But among the most simple (and delicious) prevention steps is to increase your daily consumption of organic and conventional fruits and veggies.

While there are literally decades of peer-reviewed nutritional studies which show the powerful disease-fighting attributes of fruits and veggies (most were conducted using conventionally grown produce), here are just some examples:

• If half of Americans increased their consumption of a fruit and veggie by a single serving each day, 20,000 cancer cases could be prevented annually, according to a study published in the journal, Food and Chemical Toxicology
• A Harvard study recently found that women who ate more than 5.5 servings of fruit and veggies a day had an 11 percent reduced risk of breast cancer compared to the women who ate 2.5 or fewer servings each day.
• Another study from the University College of London found that people who ate seven or more servings of fruits and vegetables per day reduced their risk of premature death by 42%, cancer by 25% and heart disease by 31%.

Studies like these are why fruits and veggies are the only food group health experts universally agree we should all eat more of every day for better health and a longer life.   So choose either organic or conventionally grown, but choosing more fruits and veggies is always the right choice.