The Whole Truth – Revisited
"There is nothing else available any place in the world - with or without a prescription - that has been clinically proven to do what Juice Plus+@ does."
Our health is our personal responsibility. And more than anything else, our health depends upon our nutrition. For most of us, nutrition really is a choice - we can choose wisely or we can choose foolishly.
The journey that led me to this realization began 45 years ago when I graduated from medical school. After fulfilling my military obligation - including a year in Vietnam - I decided that I would become an infectious diseases doctor. In 1970, I opened my practice in Atlanta, and the next 10 years went pretty much as I expected. But in 1980, the unexpected came along - an epidemic of HIV and AIDS. I saw that those patients who had the best nutrition did the best with their HIV infection - especially those who had a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. So I began to study nutrition. I learned that fruits and vegetables have tens of thousands of antioxidants and other phytonutrients, and that they are all important, not just one or several - that they all work together.
Why fruits and vegetables are so important
Statistically speaking, many of you reading this will likely have a heart attack at some point in the future. But the research data is strong and very powerful that the more fruits and vegetables you consume, the less likely you are to have that heart attack. Similarly, many of you will face the diagnosis of cancer in the future. Here again, the data is overwhelming that a diet high in intake of fruits and vegetables is associated with a marked reduction in the risk of cancer. The reason for this is the balance of Mother Nature in fruits and vegetables - all of those thousands of antioxidants and other phytonutrients that work together to enhance our good chemistry and to protect against the bad.
One example of bad chemistry is the phenomenon of oxidative stress. When you burn a log in your fireplace it generates sparks; and if you don't have a screen, those sparks burn holes in your carpet. Similarly, when you burn sugar, fat, and carbohydrates in your body, you generate "sparks" called free radicals - billions of them. They bombard your body from the inside out, particularly at a cellular level. Antioxidants and other phytonutrients from fruits and vegetables help protect against the oxidative stress caused by those free radicals.
We generate billions of free radicals in every cell every day. And in every cell every day, our DNA is damaged 10,000 times. If your body fails to repair DNA damage properly, it ends up as a mutation, and we all know the association of mutations with cancers. Similarly, if free radicals damage the tips of your chromosomes, you increase the rate at which you age - and nobody wants to age more rapidly.
We have whole organ systems affected by oxidative stress - take the cardiovascular system, for example. You probably know someone who has suffered from a stroke, a heart attack, heart failure, high blood pressure, or poor circulation. Fruit and vegetable nutrition has been shown conclusively to positively impact these and other cardiovascular conditions.
A second system that is crucial to all of us is the immune system. We're all aware of how important the immune system is in helping decrease the frequency and severity of infections, but our immune system does a lot more than that. It is crucial to healing wounds when they occur. We also have immune system cells that circulate through our tissues seeking out cancer cells before they can become full-blown malignancies. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables has been shown to strengthen the immune system.
Another example of bad chemistry that occurs in our bodies is having too much of an amino acid called homocysteine. Elevated levels of homocysteine have been associated with heart attacks, strokes, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and birth defects. A diet rich in fruits and vegetables has been shown to help keep homocysteine at healthier levels.
A search for alternatives
It's things such as these that have prompted the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to call for us to eat 7 to 13 servings of fruits and vegetables every day knowing full well how difficult that is to achieve. Yet, they're sticking by that recommendation because the science is so sound. Unfortunately, there is a huge gap between what we should eat and what we do eat - and we need to try to bridge that gap.
A lot of people turn to vitamin and multivitamin supplements to try and offset the low levels of fruits and vegetables they consume. There's lots of data to suggest that this might not be the right answer. For example, in 2006 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) State of the Science Expert Panel determined that we spend 23 billion dollars a year on multivitamin and mineral supplements - yet they found insufficient evidence to prove benefit from taking those multivitamins in terms of preventing chronic disease.
Similarly, in 2003, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force found in their analysis of numerous clinical studies on vitamin supplements that these studies, taken as a whole, "failed to demonstrate a consistent or significant effect of any single vitamin or combination of vitamins on incidence of death from cardiovascular disease." Once again, it's that balance of Mother Nature - those thousands and thousands of phytonutrients - that are so critical.
The emergence of Juice Plus+@
Fifteen years ago, NSA introduced an innovative new concept in nutrition - whole food based nutrition from fruits and vegetables in capsule form. It's not a multivitamin; it’s concentrated whole food based nutrition from 17 different fruits, vegetables, and grains. But what really sets Juice Plus+@ apart - and why so many health professionals recommend it - is that it's supported by science. Third-party clinical
research on Juice Plus+@ - 13 studies since 1996 has been conducted at leading research institutions all over the world and published in peer-reviewed professional journals.
Juice Plus+@ makes no claim to treat or prevent any specific disease. But the research is compelling that Juice Plus+@ significantly impacts various aspects of our physiology that lead to disease and aging.
Eight of the clinical studies on Juice Plus+@ measured "bioavailability" - whether or not key antioxidants from Juice Plus+@ actually get into the bloodstream. And all eight studies confirm yes, they do.
Remember all of those free radicals? Four studies looked at the phenomenon of oxidative stress; and all confirm that Juice Plus+@ reduces oxidative stress in our bodies.
There are two additional gold standard studies demonstrating that Juice Plus+@ reduces oxidative stress - conducted at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and at the Medical University of Graz in Austria. But these studies are different from the others in two ways. First, they were conducted on highly trained athletes. Second, in addition to Juice Plus+ Orchard Blend@ and Juice Plus+ Garden Blend@, they included Juice Plus+ Vineyard Blend@. And what they showed was that-if you took Juice Plus+@ you could decrease the amount of damage to circulating proteins in your body caused by physical activity.
Remember all the trouble that arises when free radicals damage your DNA? Juice Plus+@ has been shown to help protect against DNA damage - in both elderly people (at Brigham Young University) and in college graduate students (at the University of Florida). Juice Plus+@ has also been shown to support a healthy immune system in studies at the University of Arizona and the University of Florida.
As for the cardiovascular system, four separate studies show that Juice Plus+@ positively impacts several key indicators of cardiovascular wellness. Three of these studies conclude, among other things, that Juice Plus+@ significantly lowered levels of homocysteine. The fourth study - conducted at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and published in the prestigious Journal of the American College of Cardiology-looked at people who consumed a very high-fat meal, which normally results in a constriction of blood vessels that lasts for over four hours. After just 28 days of taking Juice Plus+@ Orchard and Garden blends, that constriction was reduced by 62 percent. And when Vineyard Blend was added, there was more than a 98 percent improvement.
To summarize, Juice Plus+@ has been shown to provide bioavailability of key phytonutrients, to reduce oxidative stress, to support a healthy immune system, to help protect against DNA damage, and to positively impact key indicators of cardiovascular wellness. Now think about that happening inside your body - your physiology - year after year after year. And then consider that there is nothing else available any place in the world - with or without a prescription - that has been clinically proven to do what Juice Plus+@ does. And the research is continuing on a variety of topics, including periodontal health, pregnancy health, exercise-related muscle fatigue, and systemic inflammation.
I talked about bridging the gap between what we should eat and what we eat. Think how difficult it would be to provide your family with 17 different fruits, vegetables, and grains every day, 365 days a year. Think how expensive that would be. And if you could find them and afford them, think how hard it would be to get your family to actually eat them every day. And compare that with the simplicity and convenience of Juice Plus+@.
As I said at the beginning, nutrition is a choice - and we can choose wisely or we can choose foolishly. I recommend two wise choices that everyone should implement today. First, provide more fruits and vegetables for your family's consumption. Second, help bridge the gap by adding Juice Plus+@ to your family's daily nutrition.
Richard E. DuBois, M.D. is one of the world's leading authorities on infectious diseases. He was also one of the first medical doctors in North America to recognize the importance of Juice Plus+@ and recommend it to patients and colleagues. During his 42 years as a physician, Dr. DuBois served as President of the Georgia Society of Internal Medicine, President of the Infectious Disease Society of Georgia, and President of the Medical Association of Atlanta. He has been included in the list of Best Doctors in America and chosen by his medical colleagues as their "physician of choice" in his specialty.
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