Eating Berries Benefits the Brain
Strong scientific evidence exists that eating blueberries, blackberries, strawberries and other berry fruits has beneficial effects on the brain and may help prevent age-related memory loss and other changes. appears in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Click here to read this article
Berries are rich in a type of antioxidant called polyphenols, which can lower blood pressure and boost “good” HDL cholesterol. A research findings, published in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association, showed that women who ate the most of these berries in the study had a 32 percent lower heart attack risk than women who only ate these berries once a month (or not at all).
