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Athletes in great
physical condition can be in poor health Notes from a talk give by Dr. John Corcoran, M.D., OBGYN - Toronto 11-18-04 Dr. Corcoran commented that it's really a failure of a modern society that so many people, including those in medicine, do not appreciate the great importance of how much nutrition impacts our lives. Regardless of whether people see the connection, the connection is there. Ignoring facts doesn't make them any less real. Dr. Corcoran has always emphasized 5 main preventive areas of health to his patients. 1. Water - stay well hydrated. 2. Get control and reduce the stress in your life. Too much stress creates a lot of free radical accumulation. 3. Nutrition. Stop eating so much processed junk and eat more plant-based foods. Cut down on the sugar. Simple refined carbohydrates convert quickly in to sugar and that's not good. 4. Exercise. Just do it, regularly. Dr. Corcoran has been a runner most of his life and often averaged 30 miles/wk. As an athlete, he was very concerned that athletes get proper nutrition, here's why: Athletes burn a lot of energy and oxygen that creates a lot of oxidative stress and free radicals that speeds up the ageing process and disease processes. The only way to neutralize those free radicals is with antioxidants and the best usable antioxidants come from Mother Nature's plant foods like fruits & vegetables that were designed for us. He has seen and read about far too many athletes who drop dead in their 40's, 50's and 60's for no apparent reason. Autopsies reveal that those athletes were in great physical condition but not in very good health..... there's a big difference. 5. Supplementation. For years he took a handful of vitamins everyday thinking they might do some good and certainly couldn't do any harm. After many years of research, he doesn't think that way any more. Now he takes Juice PLUS+ everyday. His Story: In the mid 90's, a doctor friend of his told Dr. Corcoran about Juice PLUS+. He trusted his friend, so he started taking it. Dr. Corcoran had always had respiratory problems...asthma and sinus and lung infections in the winter months plus joint pain from running. Every year he went through inhalers, found himself taking antibiotics for the infections and anti-inflammatories for the joint pain. After 6 months of taking Juice PLUS+ he greatly reduced his use of his inhaler, the sinus & lung infections disappeared and the joint pain gradually got better. That's his particular experience. Many of his patients had similar health problems so he realized he'd be doing them a terrible disservice, in fact would not be doing hisjob, if he didn't tell them about Juice PLUS+. Now years later, he has seen the positive changes first hand in his practice of hundreds of patients who take Juice PLUS+. That's the power of consuming a wide variety of fresh, raw vine-ripened fruits & vegetables everyday. Juice PLUS+ is simply fruits & vegetables repackaged in to a convenient, effective and affordable form. Like most healthcare professionals Dr. Corcoran wanted science to confirm what he had seen in himself and his patients who took Juice PLUS+. Well, "The Science of Juice PLUS+" is very exciting. Many studies have shown conclusively that Juice PLUS+ gets in to the blood and goes to work. Dr. Corcoran went through all the research and explained it. Very impressive. He covered the oxidative stress studies already published and the ones in progress - Georgetown University, UCLA, University of North Carolina-Greensboro(exercise study), University of Florida, University of Milan, etc. Dr. Corcoran also spoke about the Juice PLUS+ Children's Health Study. The results coming in are very exciting. There are now over 55,000 families involved in the study and that number will grow to 250,000 families in the next 5 years. Dr. Corcoran was most impressed with the homocysteine studies. Homocysteine is a naturally occurring amino acid produced by the body that often accumulates to unhealthy levels when nutritional status is compromised. An elevated level of total plasma homocysteine is considered to be a predictor of the mortality risk for all diseases. When you go for your yearly physical and get your blood work done, make sure you find out your homocysteine level. Healthy people studied in Australia had healthy homocysteine levels under 10. After taking Juice PLUS+ for 43 days, their homocysteine levels dropped 8.4% on average and to a level on average under 8. People in Italy that had higher homocysteine levels were also studied. After taking Juice PLUS+ for 28 days, their homocysteine levels also dropped on average to below 8, a drop on average of 37.2%. After another 28 days without Juice PLUS+, the subject's homocysteine levels returned to their elevated pre-study levels. Dr. Corcoran is not aware of any prescription drug that can produce similar effects; and then of course there's always those side effects... Dr. Corcoran really laid it out for everyone. Juice PLUS+ is helping people, that's a fact. Regular exercise, drink plenty of water, eat a nutrient rich diet, practice stress reducing and take Juice PLUS+ - it helps health and isn't that what everyone wants? For further information on Juice Plus click here Or call Hank toll free 303-579-2084
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