Blueberries Combat Hardening of the Arteries

Should you suffer from atherosclerosis, a humble fruit could enable you to combat the artery hardening which accompanies this disease.
This is the finding of a study conducted on laboratory mice.
This is the first direct evidence that blueberries can help prevent dangerous lesions or plaques from enlarging in arteries.
Atherosclerosis is the main cause of two kinds of heart disease, strokes and heart attacks. Heart disease is a leading killer disease across the world, caused partly by hereditary causes, unhealthy diets and lifestyles.
The American study contrasted the area or size of atherosclerotic lesions on 30 young laboratory mice.
50 per cent of the mice were placed on a diet of freeze-dried blueberry powder for five months, with the other 50 per cent of the animals not getting any berry powder.
Lesion sizes were measured at two sites on the arteries leading from the heart. They were 39 and 58 percent less than that of lesions in mice whose diet contained no blueberry powder.