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Aug / Sept 2007
Be Your Own Herbal Expert (Part 8) by Susun S Weed The Twilight before a new Dawn by Shelley Yates Regular Columns: with Judy LeBeau Horoscopes for August and September (pdf file format) by Laura Marketing for Healing Professionals by Juliet Austin, MA, Marketing Coach <Nutrition by Lisa Marie Bhattacharya (Whitaker) by Yoga Teacher Sheri Kauhausen Inspirations - Magic Doorways by Devrah Laval Advertorials: Struggling with a Serious Illness?
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Blueberries
excepts from www.mercola.com/1999/archive/blueberries_reverse_aging.htm and
www.mercola.com/article/blueberries.htm “I recommend almost all vegetables wholeheartedly, as you can review in my recommended vegetables list. When it comes to fruits, though, I urge more moderation and careful selection, says Dr. Mercola.
When I am asked to recommend one type of fruit overall, my answer is berries. They are some of the healthiest fruits on the planet, in part because they haven’t been hybridized into giant fruits full of sugar. They are instead small and densely packed with a variety of potent phytochemcials that can do wonders to normalize and improve health. Easily one of the best berries on the planet, absolutely loaded with antioxidants, is the blueberry. “Blueberries are quite low in sugar compared to other fruits yet pack some of the most powerful antioxidant properties of all fruits and vegetables. In addition to preventing heart disease, cancer and other diseases, they’ve been shown to slow the aging process, especially in the brain.” Blueberries – especially wild blueberries – has a huge impact on boosting your nutritional health by: |
In the June 2004 issue of Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, researchers used a technique called oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) to test the antioxidant power of more than 100 different kinds of fruits, vegetables, nuts and spices. Wild blueberries emerged as the top antioxidant capacity fruit – and overall were second only to Mexican red beans! For the first time, in this antioxidant study, the USDA evaluated both wild (lowbush) and cultivated (highbush) blueberries and found that wild surpassed its cultivated cousins by 48%. The official standings of this study are listed below
“Forget Viagra. Forget red wine. Anyone seeking to really feel young again should try blueberries, research on rats suggests. Old rats fed the equivalent of a cup of blueberries a day not only were more coordinated, but were smarter than other old rats. Researchers are now working to find out just what it is in blueberries that repairs the damage ageing does to the brain. In the meantime, they are eating blueberries themselves.
“Researchers also found that rats fed spinach and strawberries learned better than rats on a standard diet. Then they threw a blueberry extract into the diet. The rats who got the supplement not only learned faster than other rats, but their motor skills improved. “There were a lot of changes in neuronal communication – the ability of one neuron to communicate with one another, but what struck the researchers was the ability to change motor behavior. There is virtually nothing out there that can change motor behavior in ageing. But the blueberries did!
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