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Connie Clark | |
Study of Smokers Indicates Health Benefits; Experts Call for More Research By Salynn Boyles
WebMD Medical News
Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD
on Thursday, March 02, 2006
March 2, 2006 - Early research suggests that a commercially available juice made from a plant used for centuries in Polynesian folk medicine may have heart-healthy benefits, but all agree that larger studies are needed to confirm the finding.
Researchers report that significant reductions in total cholesterol and triglycerides were seen in smokers who drank a product containing juice from the fruit of the noni tree every day for a month. The study was funded by the manufacturer of the product, sold as Tahitian Noni Juice.
The study was presented Thursday at the 46th Annual Epidemiology Conference of the American Heart Association.
American Heart Association spokeswoman Barbara Howard, PhD, called the findings intriguing and said the study is a rare example of good research on a dietary supplement or food that makes health claims.
"Supplement stores are full of products that make health claims that aren't backed up by science," she tells WebMD. "This study was only a first step, but it is a step in the right direction."
Reductions Substantial
Researcher Mian-Ying Wang, MD, says she first became interested in studying noni juice in 1999 after becoming convinced that it helped reduce her pain from a wrist fracture.
She has received more than $800,000 in grants from Utah-based Morinda Corp., which sells the juice via the Internet and through independent distributors. The cholesterol/triglyceride research came from a larger cancer prevention study involving adult smokers.
A total of 106 smokers drank 1 to 4 ounces of the product, made from the juices of the noni plant, blueberries, and grapes, every day for a month. Twenty-six additional smokers drank a similar-tasting juice drink that did not contain noni juice. None of the participants were on cholesterol-lowering medications.
Total cholesterol levels in the noni juice drinkers dropped from 235.2 mg/dL to 190.2 mg/dL after a month; average triglyceride (blood fat) levels dropped from 242.5 mg/dL to 193.5 mg/dL. Cholesterol and triglycerides did not have any significant change during the period in the group that got the drink without noni juice.
Wang tells WebMD that she hopes to do larger studies in both smokers and nonsmokers.
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Private Reply to Connie Clark | | Mar 05, 2006 8:39 pm | | re: Noni Juice: Can It Lower Cholesterol? | # | 
Doug Leedy | | I think if you check PubMed for xanthones and mangosteen, you will see reports on the components of Xango, a product that has 30 years of independent scientific studies behind it. We have seen remarkable results with this product, and we know the reasons why. That is a distinct advantage when it comes to marketing a product. To my knowledge, there are few or no similar studies of Noni.
I see that you are interested in household chemicals. Have you looked into Melaleuca? We use them in our house and they are remarkable products.
Private Reply to Doug Leedy | | Mar 06, 2006 1:36 am | | re: re: Noni Juice: Can It Lower Cholesterol? | # |
Connie Clark | |
Hi Doug and thanks for posting. If you do some serious due diligence, you will find that Tahitian Noni has been around a bit longer than Xango and that Xango was actually a "spinoff" trying to duplicate what Tahitian Noni does. Tahitian Noni has ongoing research and is in the Physician's Desk Reference. I won't go further in to detail at this point. Please visit TNI-OptforFreedom to learn more.
However, I will not debate whether one product is better than another here on my Network board. Suffice it to say that I firmly believe that there are many alternative health products that have great properties for healing and are beneficial to one's health. Tahitian Noni juice is one; Xango is another; Goji Juice is another, etc. etc.
I thank our great Universal Spirit for providing us with so many wonderful health products from Nature. My sincere hope is that one day Alternative Health and Modern Medicine will get together so that we can all have the best of "both worlds". Visit Spirit of Life Foundation to see my Vision.
I do not want to see any "bashing" of other products or companies on this Network. Please be respectful of everyone's business and company.
And in answer to your comment regarding Melaleuca...Doug, I'm the Moderator and Founder of this Network board. I started this Network originally because of my Melaleuca business and my passion is health and wellness.
Wishes to you for great success and prosperity!
Warmly,
Connie
http://www.optforfreedom.com
> Doug Leedy wrote:
> I think if you check PubMed for xanthones and mangosteen, you will see reports on the components of Xango, a product that has 30 years of independent scientific studies behind it. We have seen remarkable results with this product, and we know the reasons why. That is a distinct advantage when it comes to marketing a product. To my knowledge, there are few or no similar studies of Noni.
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>I see that you are interested in household chemicals. Have you looked into Melaleuca? We use them in our house and they are remarkable products.
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