date:May 11, 2016
ce available in stores. The placebo was a flavor-matched, calorie-matched, artificially colored beverage. After eight weeks, volunteers given the juice had notable lower levels of five of 22 indicators of cardiometabolic risk in their blood, compared with volunteers given the placebo.
Cardiometabolic risk is the combined risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD), diabetes and stroke, which together causes more deaths in the developed world than anything else. CVD alone causes 930,000 deaths in the U