A new study published in The Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging has found that people who ate more fruit in midlife experienced less depression in older age. Experts say 3 to 4 servings of fruit per day is a healthy target.
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The findings could have meaningful impact for preventing a mental health condition that’s extremely common in older populations. The more fruits subjects indicated eating in the 1990s questionnaire, the lower their likelihood of experiencing depression approximately 20 years later. The connection between fruit and better mental health wasn’t slight, either. Koh stated in a previous press release that participants who had at least three, compared to those with less than one serving a day, were able to reduce the likelihood of aging-related depression by at least 21%.
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