Positive effects of the Juice Plus+ Healthy Starts Program
Established in 1999, the international Children’s Health Study was a large-scale, multi-year survey designed to formally document the positive effects Juice Plus+ (a fruit and vegetable concentrate) has on the health and well-being of families who take it. Through this study, which ran for 20+ years, over 250,000 participating families saw healthy changes to their nutrition, hydration, fitness, and sleep habits. The Children’s Health Study is now concluded, but the Juice Plus Company now runs the Healthy Starts program to keep encouraging these healthy habits for families by providing free Juice Plus products for children ages 4 to 25.
This Healthy Starts program is based on three important concepts:
- Good nutrition is the foundation of health and inspires other healthy lifestyle choices.
- The best time to establish good health and nutritional habits is in childhood.
- The key to getting children to adopt good health habits is parental involvement.
The Healthy Starts program is simple. For every parent, grandparent, or other adult that signs up as a Juice Plus+ customer, the company provides Fruit Blend and Vegetable Blend capsules or chewables completely free to a child, teenager, or college student (ages 4 to 25). To get started on the Healthy Starts program, please visit the Juice Plus+ website.
Dr. Sears, or Dr. Bill as his “little patients” call him, has been advising busy parents on how to raise healthier families for over 40 years. He received his medical training at Harvard Medical School’s Children’s Hospital in Boston and The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, the world’s largest children’s hospital, where he was associate ward chief of the newborn intensive care unit before serving as the chief of pediatrics at Toronto Western Hospital, a teaching hospital of the University of Toronto. He has served as a professor of pediatrics at the University of Toronto, University of South Carolina, University of Southern California School of Medicine, and University of California: Irvine. As a father of 8 children, he coached Little League sports for 20 years, and together with his wife Martha has written more than 40 best-selling books and countless articles on nutrition, parenting, and healthy aging. He serves as a health consultant for magazines, TV, radio and other media, and his AskDrSears.com website is one of the most popular health and parenting sites. Dr. Sears has appeared on over 100 television programs, including 20/20, Good Morning America, Oprah, Today, The View, and Dr. Phil, and was featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in May 2012. He is noted for his science-made-simple-and-fun approach to family health.