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Top Six Superfoods – WOWT

By on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 | No Comments

This colorful fruit is also a source of vitamin C and fiber. Strawberries are second only to blueberries in antioxidant content and they have more vitamin C than any other berry. Blackberries: Like most darkly colored fruits and vegetables …

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Anti Aging: Looking Great at 71 by Eating Plenty of Fruits and Vegetables

By on Friday, February 5th, 2010 | No Comments

If you didn’t know already how many different ways that fruits and vegetables benefit the body, well…here’s one more.  In a word, slowing the aging process. That’s right. If you’re eating foods that contain lots of antioxidants, and most people don’t so we recommend Juice Plus+®, then you will age slower than if you’re eating less [...]

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Food Choices Makes a Healthy Diet, Not Money

By on Friday, February 5th, 2010 | No Comments

Providing money for school lunch programs may sound like a good idea (to get re-elected), but the reality is that no amount of money is going to force good nutrition into the mouths of students, unless you're actually paying them to eat those fruits and veggies (hey, there's an idea!). We know kids and parents [...]

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Increased Vegetable Intake Decreases Cancer Risk

By on Monday, February 1st, 2010 | No Comments

According to research published in Nutrition and Cancer, those with a higher intake of vegetables reduce their risk of stomach cancer by 50% of more. Since we know that most people do not eat enough fruits and vegetables, we do recommend Juice Plus+® for added nutrient from those foods, but a diet where you consume more [...]

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Vitamins And Sunshine – Do We Need More?

By on Friday, January 29th, 2010 | No Comments

More research continues to be published regarding the benefits of Vitamin D, or at least what appears to be a link between a Vitamin D deficiency and cancer, particluarly colon cancer.  I'm willing to bet that this is the first in what will be a line of dominoes that will fall when it comes to [...]

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Health Care Reform – The Effort Continues in Washington

By on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 | No Comments

Health care reform, it's feeling like old news at this point, but the debate and the effort to push through some sort of change or law is still going on. This seems more about one party winning than it does about helping balance the industry as a whole and helping more Americans take charge of their own health. Should [...]

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Vitamins – Too Much And Too Many Not a Good Thing

By on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 | No Comments

The American way – if some is good, then more must be better. Among other things, the kitchen is where I first heard this. Using a spice or seasoning on a food or in a recipe, that makes it good, for some reason makes most people think more is better. The same can be applied [...]

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Nutrients That Could ‘Treat’ Alzheimer’s?

By on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 | No Comments

We know that Juice Plus+ contains nutrients from a variety of fruits and vegetables, but this in no way assumes that because MIT scientists have seen promise using nutrients as a way to treat Alzheimer's, that Juice Plus+ could also be a use for that purpose*. Nutrients from various fruits, vegetables, and berries could help [...]

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Vitamin D, Calcium – Reducing Fracture Risks

By on Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 | No Comments

A combination of Vitamin D and Calcium has been studied, showing promising results for those seniors who took a daily dose of the two. While there are only a few vitamins or supplements that we recommend outside of the whole food nutritional supplement Juice Plus+, there are some important nutrititional needs that can't be gotten [...]

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Increased Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Associated With Lower Obesity Rates

By on Saturday, January 16th, 2010 | No Comments

It is a fact that those who eat more fruits and vegetables are more likely to be a ‘normal’ weight than those who are deficient in what’s recommended daily. Eating more fruits and vegetables is not only good for the prevention of sickness and disease, but will also increase the likelihood of being at a [...]

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