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Article: The mysterious blueberry.
- Article from:
- Nutrition Health Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 2002
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Blueberries are increasingly popular as more consumers reach for a fruit that is high in antioxidant content and long on taste. Antioxidants shield the body's cells from the plundering effects of free radicals. These rogue molecules corrupt healthy cells--a process that ultimately under lies cellular aging.
Blueberries are among the fruits and vegetables highest in antioxidant capacity, according to tests developed by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), says Ronald L. Prior, chemist with the Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center in Little Rock.
"Our research on aging shows that blueberry supplementation at about 1 to 2 percent of the diet may reverse ...
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