Important enough if you don't want to get cancer.

Fruits and vegetables are so powerful and key to preventing cancer that I read an interesting study once, to do with organic fruits and vegetables versus those grown with fetilizers and herbicides and pesticides.

It turns out that if you eat fruits and vegetables grown with the pesticides, you'll *still* get less cancer than if you don't eat your fruits and vegetables at all.

Consequently, one of the interesting observations of the study was that people on modest incomes would not be able to afford fruits and vegetables if their only option was to buy the expesive organic stuff, such that, as painfull as this is to acknowlege, because I am an advocate of organic agriculture, in fact, to society, the cost of taking care of cancer paitients is so high that it's better to accept the risk of *some* people getting cancer from pesticides than to carry the cost of cancer if *nobody* eats fruits and vegetables because nobody can't afford them.

That's how powerful fruits and vegetables are for preventing cancer. Even when they're grown with pesticides, they do a better job of keeping you healthy than if you don't eat them at all.

So yes... eat your five serving per day. It's important.