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4 Healthy Reasons To Eat More Blueberries
Blueberries are common ingredients in sweet desserts and yummy snacks. They are sweet, colorful, and always available in groceries. However, aside from being tasty, blueberries are also proven to be super healthy for the body. They are considered a superfood because of their high level of antioxidants that benefit the brain, blood pressure, and aging process. Here's how blueberries affect the body:
1. High levels of antioxidants
Compared to other fruits, blueberries have the highest quantities of antioxidants. Antioxidants are essential for the body because they neutralize free radicals, and prevent or reduce the damage caused by oxidation. Blueberries mainly contain a type of flavonoids called anthocyanins which are linked to the berries' health benefits.
2. Decrease blood pressure
According to research, eating one cup of blueberries may help decrease systolic blood pressure which is the amount of pressure in your arteries during the heart muscle's contraction. It's also proven that these berries help improve blood vessel function1.
Another study has shown that obese people with a high risk of heart disease saw a 4-6% decrease in blood pressure after eating 2 ounces of blueberries a day2.
3. Improved cognitive function
Your heart isn't the only one thanking blueberries! Your brain also gets a lot of benefits from this fruit. A study has shown that the polyphenols in blueberries improve episodic memory in healthy elderly with poor memory performance3. They affect aging neurons which leads to improvements in cell signaling. Another study noted that blueberries and strawberries can help delay mental aging by up to 2.5 years4.
4. Healthier aging process
Oxidative DNA damage is part of everyday life and it is part of the reason why people grow old. However, it can also cause the development of serious diseases like cancer5. Fortunately, blueberries can neutralize some of the free radicals that damage your DNA. They also reduce inflammation which helps a person age without developing diseases 6.
Make sure to add blueberries in your meal plans to enjoy all its amazing benefits. However, always remember that maintaining a balanced diet and a healthy lifestyle is still important.
References:
1) https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article-abstract/74/7/967/5321875?redirectedFrom=fulltext 2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20660279 3) https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article/74/7/977/5321876 4) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ana.23594 5) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15123782 6) https://academic.oup.com/biomedgerontology/article-abstract/74/7/965/5445331?redirectedFrom=fulltextTerms and Conditions | Privacy Policy | Contact | Guarantee | Resellers | Affiliates
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Hello. This is Dr. Ben, Chief Medical Advisor here at Healthy Habits Products, pointing out something important that you may not realize about the toxins in your body.
Most people believe that having a healthy heart is either a matter of good genetics ("he’s just lucky") or a strict diet ("I just have to give up salt").
The truth is, genetics and food choices are NOT the root cause of your struggle to rid your body of the risk of heart disease and a potential heart attack or stroke, no matter how hard you try. Your high blood pressure, bad cholesterol and high blood sugar have little to do with bad genes or ANY of the most common things believed to cause heart disease.
Your struggle to protect and even heal your heart comes down to 3 little-known factors that your doctor might not even know about!
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But before I do, however, it’s extremely important to understand the three critical things that must take place to STOP the potential of heart disease, including the possibility of a heart attack or stroke:
Sugar is necessary for survival. Blood sugar (or, blood glucose) refers to sugar that’s introduced into the bloodstream to supply needed energy to all the cells in the body. Our bodies are made to regulate those levels, making sure they’re neither too high nor too low.
Unfortunately, sugar is made from the food we eat. Our digestive system breaks down carbs from food and sends them straight to our bloodstream as glucose, a simple sugar that converts to energy. However, glucose can only enter the cells via insulin.
Unbalanced insulin levels result in either type 1 diabetes (also known as insulin sensitivity, or too low levels) or type 2 diabetes (too high levels).
This means, the higher your insulin levels, the higher your chance of diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM), a disease that literally damages the structure and function of your heart.
Insulin doesn’t care whether your blood sugar is at a healthy level. Its only concern is that you do not starve and have the ability to produce energy for your body to burn.
The big, ugly problem: Unless you do something to “short-circuit” this biological need to feed your cells, you’ll never have the heart health you want and deserve.
It begins with maintaining your insulin levels, because modern living—along with diets full of refined sugars and other challenges—have made it so most of us are nearly insulin-unbalanced all the time. This not only makes eating right nearly impossible, it also makes choosing when and how often to eat MUCH harder.
Think about the last time you were ravenously hungry? You began to feel weak and dizzy, right? You began to feel yourself shutting down—and that’s exactly what insulin issues can do.
Whether you’ve heard of “bad” cholesterol (LDL) or “good” cholesterol (HDL), I assure you. They’re having a MASSIVE effect on the health of your blood.
LDL cholesterol is considered bad because it creates plaque, a thick, hard deposit that can clog arteries, making them less flexible. (This is known as atherosclerosis.) Eventually, a clot can form, blocking a narrowed artery, often resulting in heart attack or stroke. Another condition called peripheral artery disease can develop when plaque buildup and narrowed arteries reduce blood flow to the limbs (usually the legs). Either scenario often results in death or life-altering consequences.
HDL cholesterol is considered good because it aids in removing LDL cholesterol from the arteries. Scientists believe HDL acts as a scavenger, carrying LDL cholesterol away from the arteries and safely back to the liver, where it’s broken down and passed from the body.
A healthy level of HDL cholesterol will protect against heart attack and stroke, while low levels of HDL cholesterol have been shown to increase the risk of heart disease.
Without properly balanced cholesterol and blood-sugar levels, your heart valves become restricted with plaque buildup, and that leads to a damaged and unhealthy heart. All this combined begins to affect other parts of your body and internal organs because they are starved of needed oxygen and blood that is pumped to them by your heart. After years of unhealthy eating, unbalanced cholesterol and blood-sugar levels all over the place, your overall heart health begins to deteriorate. In worse cases, not protecting your heart health can lead to major damage resulting in the need for heart surgery or a heart transplant. In the worst case, deteriorated hearth health can lead to death.
And it gets worse with each passing year, not only making it harder to avoid heart disease but actually causing you to GET A HEART ATTACK OR STROKE—no matter how hard you try to avoid it.
Your stress levels increase. The number you see on the blood-pressure monitor goes up and perhaps worst of all, you begin to live your life in complete fear and feel like your heart is a bomb waiting to go off.
This vicious cycle not only accelerates with each passing year, it begins to compromise other parts of your health. Your sleep quality drops. Your stress begins to affect those around you. You stay away from strenuous activities including all exercise, and those things accelerate the cycle yet again.
Each time, the cycle speeds up, which is why heart disease is often so accelerated later in life.
This is pretty disheartening for anyone looking to maintain healthy blood levels and transform their heart health.
What if you could balance your blood sugar, lower your bad cholesterol, maintain good cholesterol, naturally control your blood pressure and get rid of the fear of a heart attack or stroke?
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Can you just imagine how much more safe you’d feel if these 3 hidden dangers of heart disease were no longer standing in the way of a healthy heart?
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Randomized-controlled research published on type 2 diabetes demonstrated the significant effect Ceylon Cinnamon can have regarding blood-sugar levels.
These results were pooled together with results from a recent study and published in the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
These results were not accomplished by every brand of the supplement, but rather only quality-sourced Ceylon Cinnamon.
After 4 weeks of supplementing with 120 mg of quality-sourced Ceylon Cinnamon per day, test subjects (543 patients) saw significantly reduced levels of fasting plasma glucose (blood sugar) from -40.52 to -8.67, and an increase of good cholesterol (HDL) from 1.09 to 2.24 while decreasing the bad cholesterol (LDL) from 17.21 to -1.63.
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