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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Research Indicates Vegetable Juice Can Make It Easy and Enjoyable for People to Increase Vegetable Intake


Research Indicates Vegetable Juice Can Make It Easy and Enjoyable for People to Increase Vegetable Intake:

"Decades of studies have documented the link between eating a diet rich in vegetables and multiple health benefits, yet nearly eight out of 10 people worldwide fall short of the daily recommendation.
1 Research presented at the International Symposium on Human Health Effects of Fruits and Vegetables suggests the best approach may be to focus on the factors that are often behind this vegetable gap.

convenience and enjoyment."

Two studies
2 presented at the symposium found that the addition of vegetable juice in people’s diets was a successful strategy to help them reach the vegetable guidelines (at least 4 servings per day).
3 In fact, the addition of a portable drink, such as V8 ® 100% vegetable juice, was more successful than an approach that focused solely on nutrition education, or offering dietary counseling on ways to increase vegetable intake.Researchers at the University of California-Davis conducted a 12-week study among adults ages 40-65 years.
4 All of the people in the study who drank at least two cups of vegetable juice met daily vegetable recommendations, yet only seven percent of the non-juice drinkers met the goal. The participants in the study with borderline high blood pressure who drank one to two servings of V8 juice lowered their blood pressure significantly.