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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?
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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.