100% Juice as beneficial as fruits and Veg

From www.netdoctor.co.uk

Some 100 per cent fruit and vegetable juices can be just as effective in combating disease as the fruit and vegetables themselves, it has been found.

After analysing a range of studies, researchers in Britain concluded that when pertaining to preventing cancer and coronary disease, there is nothing proving that juices are not just as effective as their whole fruit counterparts. Disease fighting anti oxidants that are present in the juice of fruits and vegetables play as large a role as the fibre in fighting disease, the study concluded.

Dubbed Can pure fruit and vegetable juices protect against cancer and cardiovascular disease, too? the report suggested that further research is required to back its conclusions. Sue Taylor, with the Juice Products Association, a non profit organisation not associated with the research, said that juice consumption should be included in the diets of adults and children.And she also highlighted a recent epidemiological study from the Journal of Medicine which discovered that consuming 100 per cent fruit and vegetable juices could help prevent Alzheimer's disease.Consumption of fruit juice in the UK rose by 24 per cent last year, according to the latest Expenditure and Food Survey, published by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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What this study leaves out is the benefits of the fibre in fruit in terms of bowel health, and slowing th rise of blood sugar levels that would occur with pure fruit juice...... Katherine

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