Blueberries bursting with health benefits
Categories: Nutrition & Supplements
In the market for a tasty, healthy treat? Try blueberries. Why? Read on and you'll find a handful of reasons.Blueberries are quite low in calories -- there are only 83 calories in one cup, says CalorieKing.com. If for some reason, this is too much for you, you can burn these calories off with any one of the following: 11 minutes of walking, four minutes of jogging, three minutes of swimming, or six minutes of cycling (based on a 35-year-old female standing 5.74 feet tall and weighing 144 pounds). Or you could just pick some berries yourself -- I did the other day and spent about 45 minutes walking up and down rows of bushes, sweating my butt off. I surely burned off a serving or two of these blue berries. Really, though, it doesn't matter to me whether or not I burn them off because they are so darn good for me, the health trade-off is worth the caloric intake.
According to the The World's Healthiest Foods, blueberries are superbly healthy for these reasons.
- They are good for the heart, the brain, and the eyes.
- They protect against colon and ovarian cancers.
- They promote gastrointestinal health.
- They help relieve diarrhea and constipation.
- Their antioxidants neutralize free radical damage to cells and tissues.
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