Usually doesn't get into specifics because there are soooo many of these MLM companies out there...
http://www.mlmwatch.org/04C/NSA/juiceplus.html
THIS is the link you should check out. Of course, I'm sure your Juice Plus distributor is telling you this info is all outdated (even though the article is from January 2001!).
Here's a bit of info from Michael Fumento's excellent book "The Fat of The Land" (HIGHLY recommended reading by the way!) on the subject of fruits & veggies (pages 203-204):
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This is as good a time as any to emphasis a point that, at some level, you must already know: fruits and vegetables are a terribly important part of the diet, even aside from the benefits of the fiber they contain. Most of the vitamins and many of the minerals we need are found in these plants. Further, in recent years an impressive body of evidence has been amassed indicating that large amounts of some of these vitamins and minerals, called antioxidants, appear to have powerful anticancer properties. Unfortunately, some people think they can get everything that fruits and vegetables provide by taking vitamin pills. Wrong. ...Not only do pills provide no fiber, they also don't provide myriad other chemicals (called phytochemicals) in foods that may also have benefits in protecting against cancer and other disease.
"That's why you need the food itself," says American Council on Science and Health Director or Nutrition Ruth Kava. "Trying to pack the benefits into a pill just isn't enough." New York nutritionist Josephine Connolly-Schoonen agrees: "We're just starting to understand the nutrients in food - how much we need and how they interact. The research isn't anywhere near the point where we can safely rely on (vitamin and mineral) pills."
It is a sad sign of the times that when medical researchers started to get through to the public that vitamin supplements weren't enough, pill companies started to actually grind up vegetables and pack them into capsules...Lots of capsules and at a wicked cost. According to Kava, to get the equivalent amount of a 1/2 cup of broccoli, you'd have to take 17 pills. That would be $2.04 in pills, while for the frozen vegetable it would be 32 cents. For spinach, it will cost you $2.28 to get a 1/2 cup's worth from 19 pills...In any case, if you want the benefits of vegetables and fruits, you have to eat vegetables and fruits...
Oh, I know that vegetables have gotten a bad rap in this country. Part of that is because we have this strange aspect of our culture that says we have to make fun of things we know are good for us. Part of it is because so many of us can't remember the last time we got within spitting distance of a cabbage or celery stalk. Part of it is because TV and billboard advertising is awash with commercials designed by people on Madison Avenue paid gazillions of bucks to make you crave burgers and chicken nuggets, not peas and carrots. But trust me on this, when you start giving your body good food and exercising it, your body will start dictating to you that it wants stuff that's good for it. And nothing's better for it than fruits and vegetables.
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'Nuff said...
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