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Article: Research Indicates Vegetable Juice Can Make It Easy and Enjoyable for People to Increase Vegetable Intake.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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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 (see also Campbell Soup Company).
Two studies2 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, ...