The Juice Plus+® Children’s Health Study is a large-scale, multi-year survey designed to determine what effect adding a whole food based nutritional product (Juice Plus+®) to the family diet can have on children’s health. The study is designed around three interrelated premises:
- Improved nutrition leads to healthier lifestyles and overall better health.
- Good nutrition and other important health habits are best established in childhood.
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Parental support and involvement are the keys to successfully establishing good health habits in children.
To provide as broad a base of information as possible, we hope to enroll tens of thousands of families from around the world who have children ages 4-18 or full-time undergraduate college students ages 19 and above. As an incentive to encourage families to participate, the Study will provide the child’s (or college student’s) Juice Plus+® products free for three years, as long as a parent, grandparent, or other adult begins to take the product along with the child or student participant. This requirement reflects the importance we place on parental support and involvement. It also will help ensure a higher survey response rate, which should lead to more meaningful results. For more information on the Children Health Study – Fill in the Box Below!
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We’re Not Paying Enough Attention To Nutrition!
As parents, we work hard to give our children every possible advantage in life. Yet too often we don’t have the time (or don’t make the time) to look after their nutritional health. We’re too busy. We don’t completely understand what eating right means ourselves. And we’re battling some pretty formidable enemies such as junk food and fast food.
As a result, our children eat and drink too much sugar, consume too many empty calories, and don’t eat enough of the good things they need – especially fresh fruits and vegetables. Because of this, our children will be at risk of developing degenerative diseases such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and stroke at a much younger age.
Here are a few of the startling statistics:
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Less than 7% of all children and adolescents consume the recommended 3 servings of vegetables per day.
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1 child in 4 is obese.
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Nearly 50% of obese adolescents remain obese as adults.
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About 6% of elementary school children and 7% of adolescent children miss 11 or more days of school yearly due to illness or injury.
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In the last 20 years, Type 2 diabetes has increased ten-fold.
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By the age of 12, an estimated 70% of our children have developed the beginning stages of hardening of the arteries.
(Bogalusa Heart Study) - 7% of school age children are diagnosed as ADHD.
(Center for Disease Control and Prevention)
The Solution: Juice Plus+ is the simple, convenient, and inexpensive way to add more nutrition from fruits and vegetables to your diet, every day.
Taking Juice Plus+ is the next best thing to eating fruits and vegetables.
Juice Plus+ provides 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 than vitamin supplements, but it also contains other phytonutrients, antioxidants, and nutrients — even some of the fiber — found in the fruits and vegetables it’s made from. These nutrients work together in combination to provide you more of the nutritional benefits of eating healthful whole foods.