Alzheimers Prevention

Eat Your Blueberries: Alzheimer's Prevention and Brain Aging

One of the many health benefits blueberries offer is Alzheimers prevention.

If you don't have it, eating a balanced diet rich in blueberries may stop you getting it; if you're unfortunate enough to already suffer from Alzheimer's, eating blueberries may reduce and slow down the effects of the disease.

The antioxidants in blueberries have brain-boosting properties. Anthocyanin in particular protects the brain from free radical damage that comes with aging.

Blueberries have been shown to fight Alzheimer's, reduce the effects of senile dementia, improve learning capacity and reverse aging in the brain.

Blueberries can also improve memory.

A USDA study run by Tufts University gave test subjects supplementary blueberries for two months. The results showed improved short-term memory, concentration, balance and co-ordination in elderly lab animals.

Which bodes well for blueberry-eating human animals.