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Bad Business 3.2.04 - Quackwatch has posted an article challenging the Juice Plus+® Children's Health Study, a large-scale, multi-year survey claimed to help determine what effect adding Juice Plus+® fruit & vegetable supplements to the family diet can have on the health and well-being of children ages 6-15. Each child participant is paired with an adult. The children are provided free products by the Juice Plus+ Children's Research Foundation http://www.childrensresearch.org/, but the adults must purchase them and report their observations. The Foundation Web site has tabulated the answers to 17 questions for which the only responses are "more," "no change," or "less." Quackwatch's critique notes that data are meaningless because many of the questions are vague, there is no control group, and no data from dropouts are tabulated and that unless these shortcomings are corrected there is no reason to regard the study as anything but a gimmick to get families to buy Juice Plus+® products. (CHD)
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