Vegetable intake
Vegetable intake has been studied in 6 papers since 2016: 5 observational studies in people; 1 in the past year. The newest paper, Oct 7, 2026: “Multi-grade obesity classification and key lifestyle risk analysis using a learning rate-tuned K-means-XGBoost hybrid approach”.
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“An inverse association between vegetable intake and successful ageing was found in China (0·97, 0·95, 0·98) but no other country.”
None of its findings points the other way.
- 4 independent labs in 5 countries
- Funders: Korea Institute of Planning and Evaluation for Technology in Food, Agriculture and Forestry and 7 more
- Humans5
- In silico1
What did studies of Vegetable intake find?
1Studies of Vegetable intake measured 1 outcome; the most studied are incident poor sleep quality (1 study).
Incident poor sleep quality
no changein humans1
1 study
Incident poor sleep quality
no changein humans1
Vegetable intake has no effect on incident poor sleep quality in humans.
“No models among men and women showed a significant association between vegetable intake and incident poor sleep quality”
Humans
BJPsych open
What is Vegetable intake linked with?
3Studies link Vegetable intake with 3 measures, most often successful aging (1 study), sarcopenia (1) and walking speed (1).
Successful aging
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1 study
Successful aging
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Vegetable intake lowers the risk of successful aging in humans (PR 0·97, 95 % CI 0·95, 0·98).
“An inverse association between vegetable intake and successful ageing was found in China (0·97, 0·95, 0·98) but no other country.”
Humansin Chinaserves/dn = 28,785
Public health nutrition
Sarcopenia
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1 study
Sarcopenia
downin humans1
Vegetable intake lowers the risk of sarcopenia in humans.
“the meat/fish/egg/legume food group, vegetable group, and total food intake were inversely associated with the prevalence of sarcopenia.”
Humansmultivariable modelsn = 801
Nutrients
Walking speed
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1 study
Walking speed
upin humans1
Vegetable intake is associated with walking speed in humans.
“They were more likely to be current alcohol users, more physically active, consumed more vegetables”
HumansHong Kong Chinese population; multivariate analysisn = 4,000
Successful Aging and Frailty: Opposite Sides of the Same Coin?
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association