The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
In 2011, a study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that showed if we took the population and divided them up by their vegetable consumption, those in the top 20% of the population eating the most vegetables had a 16% reduction in what is known as all-c cause mortality.
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But if instead of just looking at vegetable consumption, we look at the top 20% of cruciferous vegetable consumers, the effect on all cause mortality is even more substantial. The top 20% of consumers of cruciferous vegetables reduce their all-c cause mortality by 22%.