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Feeding blueberry powder to mice significantly reduced the growth and spread of triple negative breast cancer cells, a very aggressive form of cancer. These were the results of several studies conducted recently at the Beckman Research Institute at the City of Hope, Duarte, CA. Triple negative breast cancer accounts for 10 to 15% of all [...] Image via nccam.nih.gov A nutritional supplement comprised of a patented blend of bilberry and pine bark is marketed as Mitrogenol. A study published in Clinical Opthamology describes a study of 79 people with raised eye pressure levels. The intraocular pressure (IOP) of participants who took Mitrogenol decreased by 24%. Those who took the pharmaceutical [...] March is the American Dietetic Association’s National Nutrition Month. We’ll be marking it by blogging in support of this year’s theme “Eat Right With Color” throughout the rest of the month. This campaign is focused on teaching people about how the color of the fruits and vegetables on their plates can signal what sort of [...] Free radicals might be a good thing? At Natural Eye Care, we extol the benefits of antioxidants because they fight the free radicals that lead to oxidation, which in turn cause aging: skin changes such as the appearance wrinkles, and ocular changes, including the development of cataracts and macular degeneration. Your eyes love antioxidants [...] Image by Lisa Norwood A new study of lab rats recently published in the journal Nutition shows that blueberries can increase memory. One month of a blueberry rich diet made older rats perform as well as young rats on memory tests and the benefits lasted even after they stopped eating the blueberry diet. Researchers [...] image via USDA A new study of rats has found that daily intake of blueberries helps reduce blood pressure in hypertensive animals. The study, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry is unique in that they studied the results of eating the berry itself, not isolated compounds derived from the fruit. [...] European Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus) Bilberry is one of the anti-oxidant rich fruits which are commonly recommended for vision conditions as well as being helpful for many other health conditions. It’s a common component in many nutritional formulations intending for vision. There has been preliminary evidence that bilberries may help inhibit or even reverse macular [...] |
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