8 Great Ways to Enjoy Blueberries

'Rich in antioxidants, blueberries fight free radical damage and keep you younger longer. Research has found that blueberries can also reverse age related declines in motor function, balance, and coordination. There’s more: a single serving of blueberries gives you 25 percent of your daily quota of vitamin C.


Of course blueberries taste divine baked with muffins, crumbled into cobblers and just on their own, but here are some simple ideas to help you create magic with these beautiful berries:'




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Blueberries Reverse Rodents' Brain Decline

 

'Early in 2010, research teams from the U.S. and the UK published positive results from the first-ever controlled clinical trials to test the effects of blueberries on brain function in older adults.

In both trials, people who drank blueberry juice or smoothies showed significant improvements in learning and memory, compared with the control groups.'

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A Magical Memory Booster

'Blueberries -- in pies, pancakes and muffins -- take me right back to my childhood summer vacations at the beach. Or, based on the latest research I’ve seen on this super-food, it may actually be that eating all those blueberries sharpened my cognitive abilities, making their deliciousness all the more memorable!

Perhaps the connection is not quite so direct, but I just read a study reporting that blueberries have a profound effect on human brain function.'


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Dementia could be caused by OTC drugs

by What Doctors Don't Tell You

'Dementia is one of the hidden diseases. A new report from the UK reveals that the number of sufferers is 15 per cent higher than health authorities had calculated – and investigations from WDDTY suggest that over-the-counter drugs may be one of the chief causes.

Around 821,000 people in the UK suffer from dementia, but gets very little funding for finding the causes and cures, says the Alzheimer’s Research Trust. For every £1 spent on dementia research, £12 is spent on investigating cancer.

The numbers of sufferers are 15 per cent higher than previous calculations had estimated, and the Trust says that it will afflict more than 1 million Britons alone before 2025.

But a new report from WDDTY – It’s drugs, not old age – suggests that many cases of dementia are being caused by everyday drugs that people buy at the pharmacy. Almost every commonly prescribed or over-the-counter drug can produce symptoms that resemble dementia, such as not remembering words or suffering short-term memory loss.

Most drugs include a nerve-blocking agent, called an anticholinergic. Some drugs have known nerve-blocking qualities, but many drugs contain the agent, even though the information is not listed in drugs’ patient sheets.'

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Reverse Dementia with Blueberries

'While the pharmaceutical industry scrambles unsuccessfully to concoct some drug to counteract the symptoms of dementia, a research team from England has found an easy nutritional intervention that actually seems to reverse cognitive impairment. Scientists at two British Universities–the University of Reading and the Peninsula Medical School–fed elderly rats a regular diet supplemented with about 150 grams (five ounces) of blueberries a day for 12 weeks. After three weeks, the rats showed considerable improvement in performing tasks involving spatial memory. In fact, the blueberry-enhanced old rats performed as well as young rats, improving memory by 83 percent, and the improvements continued for the remaining nine weeks of the study.'

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