Few understand the importance of eating one of the world’s most nutritious foods. Daily, we are told by the mainstream media to watch our blood sugar for diabetes, stop eating red meat because it causes heart disease and to cease all activity involving a hot grill because that causes our foods to have carcinogens which cause cancer.
Don’t forget about eating too much eggs becuase this allegedly jacks up our cholesterol levels and threatens to put a noose around our blood vessels.
Thinking about going in the sun? Nope. Forget about it. Now we are getting “research” backed results that say that sunlight dramatically increases the risk of skin cancer.
A lot has been said about the attaining optimal health, but none of it is right. Take the commercial food pyramid for example.
What our Health administration puts at the very core of our diets is grains, breads and cereals. These are simple carbs. For those unfamiliar with weight and fat loss, this is a disaster. If you have read anything we have said about fat loss then you know that this is a shortcut to a flabby stomach.
But weren’t we talking about blueberries?
Yes. We took a quick detour to showcase how backwards our health system is. For further proof, look no further than the new health documentary that aired on Netflix (or better yet please avoid).
But what if we could lower our risk for all aforementioned conditions? Wouldn’t that be great? Even better, what if we could do all of that with just one food?
Enter Blueberries.
Health Benefits of Blueberries
Blueberries come jam pack with vitamins minerals and antioxidants that help you develop a strong and powerful immune system. With just a handful of these babies a day, you stand to gain all the benefits that blueberries can give you. Lets discuss the top 5:
#1: Help Maintain Healthy Bones and Teeth
Blueberries are loaded with calcium, magnesium, zinc, and vitamin K. All these vitamins and minerals serve you by strengthening your bones and teeth at their very core. For you athletes out there, imagine never having to sit out a game from a broken bone ever again. While blueberries certainly cannot guarantee that you will *never* break a bone, they drastically help your chances.
#2: Blueberries Help Decrease Blood Pressure
This is a big one. Especially for the people who are over 40 years old. Besides diabetes and a sedentary lifestyle, high blood pressure is the biggest contributor to heart disease. What makes high blood pressure such a formidable condition is that it is literally a silent killer. You don’t realize its there until its too late. The antioxidants in blueberries help lower your resting blood pressure so you put less stress on your heart and blood vessels.
#3: Blueberries Help Manage Diabetes
For those of you that already have diabetes, blueberries are a godsend. Since they are high in dietary fiber, these little berries help lower your blood glucose level. This is ideal for maintaining healthy insulin levels in your blood stream.
#4: Blueberries Help Fight Heart Disease
Filled with fiber, potassium and Vitamin C, blueberries are your best friend when it comes to fighting off heart disease. As you know by now, high blood pressure contributes to various heart problems. By lowering blood pressure, we are able to preserve the integrity of our hearts for longer. After going this, the previous mentioned vitamins and minerals go to work for you to heal any damage that was done to your heart. Now thats a heart healthy food!
#5: Blueberries Help Prevent Cancer
As if it couldn’t have gotten any better, it just did. The Vitamin A, C and other phytonutrients in blueberries help destroy free radicals in your body. Most cancers are caused by free radicals binding to your healthy cells and mutating them which causes them to uncontrollably multiply. By eliminating these free radicals before they get to your healthy cells, blueberries serve as a major deterrent to developing cancer.