The mighty blueberry
Health benefits of blueberries
One of nature's most amazing and powerful anti-oxidants, blueberries offer a variety of health benefits, from to lowering cholesterol to building up urinary tract health, improving vision and much more. Researchers around the world are proving without a doubt the marked health benefits of this demure but powerful little fruit. The growing body of evidence suggests this delicious gift, part of Mother Nature's Bounty, could possibly stand as an effective disease fighter. Research conducted at the USDA center has found blueberries rank hands down number one in antioxidant activity. This is in comparison to 40 other fruits and vegetables. The role of antioxidants is to neutralize free-radicals, the by-products of energy metabolism. Free radicals are responsible in part for cancer and other age related diseases. Anthocyanin, the pigment that makes blueberries their dark purply blue, is though to be the key agent in this disease fighting process. In another research study conducted by the USDA, it was found that feeding blueberries to laboratory rats slowed down the age related loss in mental capacity. This finding alone has major implications for human cognitive decline, namely Altzheimer's and other age related cognitive diseases. Again, it is purported that the high antioxidant activity probably played a role.High cholesterol? Try incorporating the mighty blueberry into your daily diet. It is postulated that blueberries may reduce the build-up of the bad cholesterol that contributes to heart disease. And once again, the dark pigmented antioxidants are thought to play a key role in cholesterol reduction. The American read more
