Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption: Brief interventions have useful long term results

EDITOR—The study by Steptoe et al on dietary change reminded me of a coronary risk reduction project that I worked for during the late 1970s.1 My role was to deliver behavioural weight reduction courses to people from a population of 6000 who wished to attend. To my surprise, a single one hour counselling session from one of the doctors had the same …