Do you suffer from metabolic syndrome?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You might be thinking right now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Roy, what do blueberries have to do with metabolic syndrome?”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the scientific community, a whole lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A recent study (which can be found in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition<\/em><\/strong>) that investigated the impact of blueberries on cardiovascular health concludes that we should all be eating 1 cup of blueberries each day<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Besides the fact that they are insanely delicious – I'm a blueberry fanatic. – blueberries can reset<\/u> your metabolic profile<\/u><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is extremely beneficial for people suffering from metabolic syndrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unfortunately, statistics show that 1<\/u> in 3 Americans<\/strong> battle it and it's slowly becoming a global epidemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Metabolic syndrome also puts you at a greater risk of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n – cardiovascular diseases<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n – type 2 diabetes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The good news?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The results of the study are pretty clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “…eating 1 cup of blueberries per day resulted in sustained improvements in vascular function and arterial stiffness<\/strong>” thus <\/em>reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease by up to 15%<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n The researchers believe this is due to anthocyanins<\/strong>, which are already known to be able to add years to your life<\/strong> and reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But there are other foods rich in anthocyanins as well:<\/p>\n\n\n\n – blackcurrants<\/p>\n\n\n\n – black and red raspberries<\/p>\n\n\n\n – blackberries<\/p>\n\n\n\n – red cabbage<\/p>\n\n\n\n – plums<\/p>\n\n\n\n – red radish<\/p>\n\n\n\n – black carrot<\/p>\n\n\n\n – purple potato<\/p>\n\n\n\n All you have to do is add them to your diet daily and enjoy the benefits they provide!<\/p>\n\n\n\n What do you think of this finding?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Are you as excited as I am?<\/p>\n\n\n\n My wife is rolling her eyes at me again – I just told her the gazillionth time to not forget about my blueberries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I can't wait to read your thoughts about this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you suffer from metabolic syndrome? You might be thinking right now: “Roy, what do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}