[FairOpinion]

I think eating the fruits and vegetables, without juicing them would have the same or more beneficial effects.

I think it's just that people are more likely to drink a glass of juice, than actually eat six tomatoes or oranges or wahtever.

[Fawn]

But you are drinking much more vitamins and minerals in the juices. One tomato is all I can eat at a time, but I can drink 3 of them.

[CDHart]

"I think eating the fruits and vegetables, without juicing them would have the same or more beneficial effects."

The juicing allows one to consume a much larger quantity of vitamins and minerals than one could get from the food itself because of the large quantity one would have to eat. I take 10 pounds of carrots and a bag of apples and make one gal. of juice. Also, it doesn't pay to buy the Wal-Mart type juicer. Get a heavy duty one -- ours ran about $500.

Carolyn

[Darnright]

>I think eating the fruits and vegetables, without juicing them would have the same or more beneficial effects. <

Not necessarily from the article:

It's not the general kind of antioxidants in fruit juices that produce the benefit, said Dr. Qi Dai, assistant professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and lead author of the report. Rather, he attributed the effect to polyphenols, a particularly strong antioxidant.

"That is why we chose to look at fruit and vegetable juice," Dai said. "They [polyphenols] are found in the outer sections of fruits and vegetables, only in the peel or skin. When you process the whole fruit, they go into the juice."