Blueberries and your family
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Even at $5.99/pound, I have been eating blueberries by the fistful, so enamored am I with blueberries’ many health benefits, from neutralizing free radicals to helping reduce belly fat. News flash: your parents (our kids’ grandparents!) should be too!
Reported last week in the Science Daily , a new study showed that drinking wild blueberry juice daily improved the memory of older adults who had been experiencing memory decline. In the 12-week study, subjects in their 70s who drank 2 ½ cups of wild blueberry juice each day displayed improvement on learning and memory tests. The study was the work of Dr Robert Krikorian, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center in Cincinnati, Ohio and colleagues, and a report about it appears in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Researchers suggest the findings establish a basis for human clinical trials to test whether blueberries really are a human memory enhancer.
While we wait for that study to see if blueberries actually do enhance memory, I’ll slip as many into my family’s cereal as I can.
