Health Benefits Of Blueberries

in #health6 years ago (edited)

Blueberries are very sweet and known to have lots of nutritional values to us. They are popular but not as popular as oranges, apples, pineapples, and more, although to those that really know the benefits of this fruit, they call it, Superfood. I want you guys to know some of the benefits of this amazing fruit and maybe when next you are in the market, you could buy it and also have a feel of it's benefits.

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Blueberries. Source: Pixabay

Health Benefits Of Blueberries

Here the top 3 benefits of blueberries;

Blueberries Helps To Protect Us Against Aging And Cancer

Our DNA damages as we grow older, causing us to age and it is known to play a role in the cause of cancer. How does blueberries help? Blueberries are known to be very in antioxidants, which helps to reduce the rate in which our DNA damages.In other words, it meas that blueberries helps to protect us from aging and having cancer.

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Blueberries Helps To Protects Us Against Aging. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Blueberries Helps To Prevent Us Against Heart Diseases

Eating blueberries have been known to lower our blood pressure and also help in protecting us from having a bad cholesterol in our blood, hereby helping us to prevent heart diseases such as stroke, heart attacks, and many more.

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Blueberries Helps To Prevent Us Against Heart Diseases. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Blueberries Helps To Improve Our Brain Function And Helps To Delay Age-Related Decline.

As we grow older, our brain function begins to decrease, that's just nature, but eating blueberries regularly would help us in maintaining our brain functions and also delay our age-related cognitive decline. As I said earlier on, blueberries are very in antioxidants, which also plays an important role in our intelligence and cognitive functions. Studies have shown that eating blueberries regularly can help us delay our age-related cognitive decline by about 2.5 years.

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Blueberries Helps To Delay Age-Related Cognitive Decline. Source: Pixabay

I hope you found the article interesting and informative.

Till next time guys

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Great article, blueberries are also used in a Disease called as Sugar.

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