Blueberries and Anti-Aging

Why Blueberries are the Anti-Aging Superfood

How can blueberries be anti-aging?

Everyone wants to stay young for as long as they can. Staying healthy in the first place is a good way to achieve that.

Diseases like diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer's and heart disease divert the body's resources in a negative way. Instead of working to maintain optimum health and vitality, your immune system fights to return to normal, the strain of which can really stress and age the body as a whole.

Blueberries help to fight these ailments, but eat them regularly and they may help prevent you from becoming ill in the first place.

Remember that blueberries alone aren't a miracle cure; a balanced diet and exercise are important, but they are nutritional powerhouses that can boost an already healthy diet with a shot of disease-fighting goodness.

The antioxidants in blueberries, responsible for their disease-fighting properties, have benefits beyond mere disease prevention. For example, the antioxidants in blueberries are believed to help prevent sun damage to skin.

Resveratrol has stopped over-indulged lab mice from gaining too much weight and has been shown to slow degeneration related to advancing years.

Anthocyanin can retard brain degeneration, prevent short-term memory loss and Alzheimer's disease.

Blueberries fight inflammation in the body, which is the basis for disease (and wrinkles), and the same inflammatory-fighting action can help relieve and prevent arthritis.

So eating your half cup of blueberries a day doesn't just give you one of your recommended servings of fruit; it will help keep you young.