Reducing Your Risk
Almost every day, another piece of research or another news story talks about the importance of our dietary choices — especially the benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables.
Whether it’s a new vitamin, an antioxidant, or some other phytonutrients not yet “discovered” by science. Fruits and vegetables contain an unparalleled array of nutritional elements. The thousands of nutrients found in fruits and vegetables work together in ways that science is just beginning to explore.
The message is clear: we need more whole food nutrition of fruits and vegetables in our diets, every day. It’s the one thing everyone agrees we can do to improve our health.
The Struggle to Eat Right
Putting the right foods into our bodies is a daily struggle. Fast food drive-throughs and all-you-can-eat buffets lurk on every corner. Fat, salt, and sugar have been added to almost every package on the shelf at the supermarket. Grabbing a bag of chips or a can of soft drink is certainly a lot easier than peeling an orange or tossing a salad.
You’ve heard it all your life: “Eat more fruits and vegetables.” Now, medical science is telling you too. Knowing is easy. It’s doing it that’s hard. People often turn to vitamins and other nutritional supplements to improve their diets. Unfortunately, vitamins alone can’t begin to replicate the thousands of different nutrients found in fresh fruits and vegetables.
You see, Australians don’t suffer from a vitamin deficiency; we suffer from a whole food deficiency. This deficiency affects the young and old alike. Click here to learn more about the Juice Plus+® Children’s Health Study.
Fuel your body with good nutrition
Today, Australians know more than ever about the relationship between good nutrition and good health. In simplest terms, healthy eating is about getting back to basics. Eating the recommended 2 and 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day is the best way to get the whole food nutrition you need to stay healthy.
Eating healthy takes time and planning, and with today’s busy lifestyles it’s easy to miss out on the nutrients you need. That’s why adding Juice Plus+® to your diet is an important step for you and every member of your family. It’s a simple, affordable way to fuel your body with good nutrition.
The Next Best Thing
Juice Plus+® is a simple, convenient, and inexpensive way to add more nutrition from fruits and vegetables to your diet, every day. Of course, there is no substitute for eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Taking Juice Plus+® is the next best thing to eating fruits and vegetables.
As most people simply can’t, don’t, or won’t Juice Plus+® helps fill that gap by providing nutrition from 17 different fruits, vegetables, and grains. Each ingredient is specially selected to provide you with a wide range of nutritional benefits. Juice Plus+® contains not only a much wider variety of naturally occurring vitamins found in vitamin supplements, but it also contains other phytonutrients, antioxidants, and nutrients– even some of the fibre — found in the fruits and vegetables it’s made from. These nutrients work together in combination to provide you with more of the nutritional benefits of eating healthy whole foods.
What is an antioxidant?
Many Australians ask, “What is an antioxidant?”
According to the CSIRO, “Antioxidants are naturally occuring chemicals in foods that help to counter the detrimental effects of oxygen free radicals, which form during normal metabolism… Eating a large range of fresh fruit and vegetables is the best source of antioxidants.” For more information, click here.
Fruits and vegetables contain a powerful array of antioxidants that provide protection for our bodies.
- Beta-carotene is found in many fruits and vegetables that are orange in color, including carrots. Some green leafy vegetables such as spinach and kale are also rich in beta-carotene.
- Lutein, best known for its association with healthy eyes, is abundant in green, leafy vegetables such as spinach, and kale.
- Lycopene is a potent antioxidant found in abundance in tomatoes.
- Vitamin C is found in many fruits and vegetables such as apples, oranges, pineapple, acerola cherries, papaya, carrots, parsley, kale, broccoli, cabbage, spinach and tomatoes
- Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant found in green leafy vegetables such as spinach and broccoli
All the above fruits and vegetables have been included in Juice Plus+®. Each ingredient is specially selected to provide a broad range of nutritional benefits.
Juice Plus+® is supported by clinical research conducted by researchers at leading hospitals and universities around the world and published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
