Monavie – What’s your opinion on this new “super juice”?
I’ve been hearing a lot about this new juice, Monavie. I myself have not started drinking it, but I have friends and family that have and are praising it and pushing me to follow in their ways. I’m just wondering if any here drinks it, or has drank it and has it worked? Opinions good and bad are wanted! I want to know the good and bad things about it, or just anything in general other than what is posted on their website and counter websites. I’ve done some research online about it but would like personal accounts. Thanks!
Monavie (along with all other super juices) are scams.
They are no more healthy than eating an apple, but like 40 times more expensive?
Your friends are most likely trying to get you to buy it because they got caught up in the pyramid scheme and want to try to get their money back.
here is an exert from my source:
"This health claim is, as the saying goes, “so wrong it’s not even wrong”. At every level, this logic fails. It is based on the following assumptions:
1. MonaVie is high in antioxidants.
2. Antioxidant supplementation has beneficial effects.
3. We are all suffering from some antioxidant and/or vitamin deficiency.
1. We know that açai juice is not especially high in antioxidants (see this study by Australia’s consumer publication Choice). Eating an apple gives you more antioxidants than drinking a serving of any popular açai juice. And açai is only one of MonaVie’s 19 fruit concentrates (the rest of its ingredients are sweeteners and preservatives, like most similar fruit juices).
2. We know that antioxidant supplementation has, so far, not been shown to have any health benefits (see this analysis of current research by Dr. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch). The oxidation of molecules is an important metabolic process. It makes no sense to try to attack it with antioxidants, just because you heard “they prevent aging” or some such nonsense.
3. We know that vitamin supplementation has no plausible value for people not suffering from a deficiency. With few exceptions, almost nobody who eats most of their meals in an industrialized country is likely to have a vitamin deficiency. And if you did, you’d be symptomatic, you’d know it, and it would show up on a blood test. If that’s not the case (which it’s probably not for anyone wealthy enough to own a computer on which to read this), your body already has all the vitamins it requires, and your regular diet already delivers more than your body uses. It’s like a car with a full tank. Overfilling the gas tank, so that it spills on the ground, is not going to give your car superpowers or super speed or super endurance or “more energy”. More vitamins than your body needs constitute just one thing: Waste. Your car’s gas tank can’t be fuller than full, and your body can’t be healthier than healthy. You either have an illness, or you don’t: You can’t have a super duper lack of illness."
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November 27th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Monavie juice blend contains a lot of calories and very little acai juice. If you would like to add acai juice to your diet, buy a different brand of acai juice that has actual acai in it.
If you want to lose weight, consuming fruits whole is more effective than drinking fruit juice. In fact, getting too many calories from fruit drinks can make you gain weight instead of losing it.
You don’t say if your friends are pushing you to buy the juice, or if they are offering to give it to you for free. Monavie juice is sold by an Amway type organization.
References :
http://www.houseofnutrition.com/nawaaloracbe.html
http://www.reviewopedia.com/monavie-juice-scam.htm
November 27th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Monavie (along with all other super juices) are scams.
They are no more healthy than eating an apple, but like 40 times more expensive?
Your friends are most likely trying to get you to buy it because they got caught up in the pyramid scheme and want to try to get their money back.
here is an exert from my source:
"This health claim is, as the saying goes, “so wrong it’s not even wrong”. At every level, this logic fails. It is based on the following assumptions:
1. MonaVie is high in antioxidants.
2. Antioxidant supplementation has beneficial effects.
3. We are all suffering from some antioxidant and/or vitamin deficiency.
1. We know that açai juice is not especially high in antioxidants (see this study by Australia’s consumer publication Choice). Eating an apple gives you more antioxidants than drinking a serving of any popular açai juice. And açai is only one of MonaVie’s 19 fruit concentrates (the rest of its ingredients are sweeteners and preservatives, like most similar fruit juices).
2. We know that antioxidant supplementation has, so far, not been shown to have any health benefits (see this analysis of current research by Dr. Stephen Barrett of Quackwatch). The oxidation of molecules is an important metabolic process. It makes no sense to try to attack it with antioxidants, just because you heard “they prevent aging” or some such nonsense.
3. We know that vitamin supplementation has no plausible value for people not suffering from a deficiency. With few exceptions, almost nobody who eats most of their meals in an industrialized country is likely to have a vitamin deficiency. And if you did, you’d be symptomatic, you’d know it, and it would show up on a blood test. If that’s not the case (which it’s probably not for anyone wealthy enough to own a computer on which to read this), your body already has all the vitamins it requires, and your regular diet already delivers more than your body uses. It’s like a car with a full tank. Overfilling the gas tank, so that it spills on the ground, is not going to give your car superpowers or super speed or super endurance or “more energy”. More vitamins than your body needs constitute just one thing: Waste. Your car’s gas tank can’t be fuller than full, and your body can’t be healthier than healthy. You either have an illness, or you don’t: You can’t have a super duper lack of illness."
References :
http://skepticblog.org/2008/11/27/more-monavie-than-i-can-swallow/
November 27th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
a pyramid scheme, a lot of hype not worth the money they want for it.
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