Not sure I agree but it really does depend on what those effects are. My mother really got onto the seriously slippery slope with a liver abscess, and during treatment for that had a minor heart attack (so we were told). I really think that she could have had a better final two years if those events had not occurred. I am not saying that in her case it was due to apple juice, but I believe the occurrence of other problems which may seem less serious, but from either of which she could well have died, also made her life very much worse.