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Dysfunctional1017

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Dec 8, 2013, 1:19:05 PM12/8/13
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The NHS has been promoting the “5 a day” campaign recommending individuals to eat five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. Is there any evidence that eating higher proportion of fruits and vegetables improves BMI? 

What would be the stata command for this question?

J

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Dec 11, 2013, 11:57:11 AM12/11/13
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You can use OLS (regress command in Stata) to look at the correlation between BMI and eating fruits and vegetables. However, this won't answer your question which poses a causal question. Does eating vegetables cause lower BMI?  To answer that you need some exogenous variation in the consumption of fruits and vegetables. This isn't a command in Stata, but rather necessary identifying variation in the data. 

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