MonaVie Does Not Treat Medical Conditions

Every MonaVie distributor will agree… MonaVie is just fruit. With that being the case it’s worth looking at what the benefits of fruit are. To get to the point, let’s examine what Wikipedia says about the nutritional value of fruit:

Fruits are generally high in fiber, water and vitamin C. Fruits also contain various phytochemicals that do not yet have an RDA/RDI listing under most nutritional factsheets, and which research indicates are required for proper long-term cellular health and disease prevention. Regular consumption of fruit is associated with reduced risks of cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, Alzheimer disease, cataracts, and some of the functional declines associated with aging.

Let’s break that apart into sentences:

Fruits are generally high in fiber, water and vitamin C.

This isn’t all that exciting to me. I could get all that from some Metamucil and a vitamin C pill. However, it’s worth noting that MonaVie has less than 1 gram of fiber per serving, so it lacks one of the key important factors of fruit.

Fruits also contain various phytochemicals that do not yet have an RDA/RDI listing under most nutritional factsheets, and which research indicates are required for proper long-term cellular health and disease prevention.

Ahh, this is the good stuff. I can’t get phytochemicals just from Metamucil and vitamin C. So eating fruit is indeed a good thing as it may (according to the words “research indicates”) help long-term cellular health and disease prevention. So fruit maybe prevents disease. Sounds like seat belt to me. Seat belts may prevent me from getting seriously injured in the case of a car accident. However, if you chose not to wear a seat belt and get into an accident, putting it on afterward isn’t going to help you or treat your injuries.

Regular consumption of fruit is associated with reduced risks of cancer, cardiovascular disease, stroke, Alzheimer disease, cataracts, and some of the functional declines associated with aging.

This looks to be an excellent reason to consume fruit – I’m going to grab and apple right now. Just note that it says your risk may be reduced of getting those diseases. There’s nothing that says or implies giving a lot of fruit to someone with Alzheimer’s will cure him or her.

Analysis of Fruit and MonaVie

To my knowledge no fruit has been approved by the FDA to help treat any disease or medical condition. The only disease I can think of that fruit may treat is scurvy (which comes from a lack of vitamin C) – something that is extremely rare in today’s world. Everything about fruit here is about the prevention, not treatment of medical conditions. By extension neither MonaVie Original or MonaVie Active can help treat medical conditions (again outside of scurvy).

There could be a case made for drinking MonaVie as a preventative measure. However, even in that case an apple is more effective than drinking MonaVie. Also, the scientific tests have largely been done on fruit which has significant fiber, so it would be a stretch to apply them to MonaVie which has little fiber. There’s a chance that fiber is part of what makes regular fruit effective. With that being the case, it’s not logical to go with something like MonaVie that is less proven and potent than fruit.

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MonaVie & Medical Conditions

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Posted by MonaVie Scam on March 15, 2011 in MonaVie & Medical Conditions. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.