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Juice Plus 101 (Essentials)

• Prolog
• The Juice Plus 12-Step Program For Fleecing Consumers
• European Juice Plus Brochure Reveals Product’s Contents
• What Is (and Is Not) In Juice Plus?
• The Juice Plus Professional Support Program: Is Your Physician Deceiving You?
• Juice Plus Marketing 101: Negative Messages About Fruit & Vegetables
• Juice Plus and Cancer: A Warning for Patients and Consumers

General Interest

• FDA Advised to Halt Marketing of Juice Plus
• Juice Plus Manufacturer’s Stock Price Tumbles: NAI Among Thursday’s Leading Small-Cap Losers
• Center for Science in the Public Interest Crucifies Juice Plus
• NSA Distributors Misrepresent Consumer Lab Juice Plus Analysis
• Juice Plus Executive Finances 14-Year Old Croatian Tennis Player, Gets Endorsement Deal and Management Contract in Return
• Nutritionist for Seattle Television Program Latest Expert to Advise Against Juice Plus
• Tufts University Dismisses Juice Plus
• Juice Plus: Prohibited Advertising Complaints
• Deceptive Juice Plus Advertising Continues
• Juice Plus Research Blog Honored By Three Fat Chicks
• Dietician at St. Louis Hospital Slams Juice Plus
• Juice Plus Research and Marketing Slammed Again
• Suppression of Negative Findings in Company-Funded Juice Plus Research Studies
• National Safety Associates Ignores University Research Chemist
• National Safety Associates Falsely Claims That Juice Plus Study Shows No Side Effects
• Physician Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Patients is Ordered by Medical Board to Stop Selling Juice Plus
• Foul-Mouthed Juice Plus National Marketing Director Issues Stunning Statement to JPRB
• Bear Grylls/Juice Plus Connection
• Consumer Alert: Bogus Juice Plus Research Published by South Carolina Distributor
• TGF-β in Ovarian Cancer: Juice Plus Falls Short of The Real Thing
• A Plea for Mercy: Correspondence Regarding Juice Plus TGF-β Study
• 2007 Rotten Tomato and Golden Apple Award Nominees
• 2006 Golden Apple Awards
• 2006 Rotten Tomato Awards

Readers Respond

• Readers Respond (04/23/008): Juice Plus Distributor Reconsiders and Quits the Business
• Readers Respond (04/18/2008): Juice Plus Evangelism and Disease Treatment Claims
• Readers Respond (04/16/2008): NSA Tries to Block EBay Sales of Juice Plus
• Readers Respond (04/08/2008)
• Readers Respond (03/07/2007)
• Readers Respond (03/01/2008): More on Morons, Juice Plus, and Pregnancy
• Readers Respond (02/14/2008): Side Effects, Distributors With Attitude, and More Misleading Claims
• Readers Respond (11/09/2007)
• Readers Respond (08/09/2007)
• Readers Respond (08/08/2007): Juice Plus Contraindicated During Cancer Therapy
• Readers Respond (08/02/2007): How Much Produce in Juice Plus?
• Readers Respond (08/01/2007): How To File A Complaint?
• Readers Respond (07/25/2007)
• Readers Respond (07/21/2007)
• Readers Respond (07/02/2007)
• Readers Respond (06/22/2007)
• Readers Respond (06/14/2007)
• Readers Respond (06/06/2007)
• Readers Respond (06/02/2007): Mitra Ray
• Readers Respond (05/07/2007): Pam Popper
• Readers Respond (5/04/2007)
• Readers Respond (4/16/2007)
• Readers Respond (3/27/2007)
• Readers Respond (3/09/2007)
• Readers Respond (2/24/2007)
• Readers Respond (1/17/2007)

Critical Commentary

• Juice Plus — and minus [University of California Berkeley Wellness Letter]
• Juiced Up and Dried Out [University of California Berkeley Wellness Letter]
• Juice Plus — A Critical Look [MLM Watch]
• Questionable Research by the Juice Plus Children's Research Foundation [MLM Watch]
• Juice Plus [Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center]
• How Product Testimonials Bend The Rules [Consumer Reports]
• High-fat diets and cardiovascular disease. Are nutritional supplements useful? [Freedman JE. J Am Coll Cardiol 2003;41:1750-2]
• Fruit and vegetable concentrate or vitamin supplement? [Watzl B, Bub A. J Nutr 2003;133:3725]
• EN Squeezes the Raw Truth Out of Juice Plus Claims [Environmental Nutrition March 2002]
• Nutrition: Who Can You Believe? [Stanton R. The Skeptic 2000;20(4):23-27]
• Juice Plus [Bloom R. Denver Naturopathic News]
• Can You Get Your Veggies in a Pill? [Denise Austin Diet & Fitness Center]
• Juice Plus [Wikipedia]
• Dietary Supplements: Facts About Juice Plus [Kathy Goodwin, RD; The Diet Channel]
• Pills cannot replace real fruit, veggies. [Alan Titchenal, PhD, CNS and Joannie Dobbs, PhD, CNS; Department of Human Nutrition, Univ. Hawaii–Manoa]
• Ask The Nutritionist [Cheryl L. Rock, PhD, RD; Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego]
• Dr. Mike Jezercak [Dept. of Chemistry, University of Central Oklahoma]
• Whole Food Supplement [Jane Korsberg, MS, RD, LD; School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University]
• Nutritional shortcut bypasses benefits of eating the real thing [Lori Shontz, St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
• Timely Topics: Juice Plus, Food or Supplement? [Fudeko T. Maruyama, PhD, RD and Mary P. Clarke, PhD; Kansas State University, Dept. of Human Nutrition]
• Juicing for fun and profit: taking a good thing too far [Therese Walsh, Nutrition Forum]
• ZDF-Magazin 'WISO': Verbotene Geschäfte in der Arztpraxis [MED-magzin.de (In German)]
• Juice Plus Clinical Research Study: Clinical Research or Marketing Ploy? [Dr. Celia Maier; Dept. of Zoology, University of Oxford]
• OncoLink Ask The Experts: Juice Plus Supplement [Katrina Claghorn, MS, RD; Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania] NEW!
• A Pinch of Salt with Some Supplements. Business Week. [David E. Gumpert] NEW!
• Ask the Expert [Dr. Elizabeth Pivonka, Produce for Better Health Foundation] NEW!
• Tabberone Hall of Shame: Juice Plus NEW!
• Multi-level Marketing [Shy David's House of Knowledge] NEW!
• All Experts.com: Juice Plus [Karen McLaughlin, M.Sc., RD] NEW!
• ABC News: Choosing Vitamins For Your Kids, Teens [Lawrence D. Rosen, MD] NEW!
• Health Letter: Juice Plus [Linda Willis, Ed.D.] NEW!
• Heal the Cause with Dr. Catherine and Jeffrey [Live Audio Webcast, April 27, 2006] NEW AND RECOMMENDED!
• Foods That Fool [Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D.: AM Northwest, KATU-TV ] NEW!
• Lost in translation: Why real fruit and vegetables beat juices, powder, and purees. [Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) Special Report. December, 2007] NEW AND RECOMMENDED!
• Who are the real winners and losers when young people are taught to eat to win? [Junkfood Science; Sandy Szwarc, BSN, RN, CCP] NEW
July 16, 2008

Juice Plus Research (Under construction)

• Bamonti et al. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2006;44:391-5.
• Bloomer et al. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2006;38:1098-105.
• Chambers et al Food Chem. 1996;57;271-274.
• Consumer Lab Juice Plus Vitamin Analysis
• Dickson et al. [Serum levels of TGF-β in ovarian cancer survivors (Texas A&M University abstract)] NEW!
• Freedman et al. [Comment on Plotnick et al 2003]. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2003;41:1750-2.
• GNLD International. Antioxidant Comparison of GNLD Carotenoid Blend vs Juice Plus Garden Blend
• Houston et al. eCAM. 2007.
• Kauffman 1998 [Comment on Plotnick 1997] JAMA. 1998;279:1069-70.
• Kawashima et al. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 2007;16:411-21.
• Kiefer et al. J Am Coll Nutr. 2004;23:205-11.
• Lamprecht et al. J Nutr. 2007;137:2737-41.
• Leeds et al. J Hum Nutr Diet. 2000;13:21-7.
• Nantz et al. J Nutr. 2006;136:2606-10.
• Panunzio et al. Nutr Res 2003 23 1221-8.
• Plotnick et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2003:41:1744-9.
• Samman et al. J Nutr. 2003;133:2188-93.
• Samman. Reply to Watzl and Bub. J Nutr. 2003;133:3726.
• Smith et al. Nutr Res. 1999;19:1507-18.
• Stewart et al. J Am Diet Assoc. 2002;102:1652-7.
• Watzl and Bub [Comment on Samman 2003]. J Nutr. 2003;133:3725.
• Wise et al. 1996 Curr Ther Res. 1996;57:445-61.

Regulations and Guidelines

• MedLine Plus: Health Fraud [U.S National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health]
• How to Spot Health Fraud [U.S. Food and Drug Administration]
• Ads for Business Opportunities: How To Detect Deception [U.S. Federal Trade Commission]
• E-8.063 Sale of Health-Related Products from Physicians' Offices [American Medical Association]
• Advertising Claims for Dietary Supplements [Federal Trade Commission]
• Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act [U.S. Food and Drug Administration]
• 21 CFR Part 101 - Regulations on Statements Made for Dietary Supplements Concerning the Effect of the Product on the Structure or Function of the Body; Final Rule [U.S. Food and Drug Administration]
• Guidance for Industry - A Dietary Supplement Labeling Guide [U.S. Food and Drug Administration]
• Dietary Supplements: An Advertising Guide for Industry [U.S. Federal Trade Commission]
• Guidelines for Vitamin and Mineral Food Supplements [Codex Alimentarius Commission]
• Consumer Complaints [U.S. Federal Trade Commission]
• Consumer Complaints [U.S. Food and Drug Administration]

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