Sunday, April 19, 2009

Blueberries may banish belly fat

"Busting belly fat may be yet another of blueberries' health benefits. A new study shows rats who ate a diet rich in blueberries lost abdominal fat - the kind of fat linked to heart disease and diabetes - as well as experienced other health benefits like lowered cholesterol and improved glucose control even if their diet wasn't otherwise heart-healthy. 'Some measurements were changed by blueberry even if the rats were on a high-fat diet,' researcher E. Mitchell Seymour, MS, of the University of Michigan's Cardioprotection Research Laboratory, says in a news release"

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