In celebration of February being Healthy Heart Month, we wanted to share with you some whole nutrition heart healthy foods!
There is new evidence released at the Experimental Biology 2011 meeting about the anti-inflammatory benefits of tart cherry juice to helping with gout and heart disease.
Study quoted here: Overweight and obese subjects consumed 8 ounces/day of tart cherry juice or placebo for 4 weeks. Tart cherry juice consumers experienced reductions in uric acid levels and inflammation markers. With regard to cardiovascular disease, reductions were also seen in triglycerides, VLDL, and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), a molecule involved in atherosclerotic plaque formation. Previous studies on sweet cherry consumption have similarly documented reductions in C-reactive protein (CRP), another inflammatory molecule that is also a marker of cardiovascular disease risk.
To Your Health!
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References: (Martin KR, Bopp J, Burrell L, et al: The effect of 100% tart cherry juice on serum uric acid levels, biomarkers of inflammation and cardiovascular disease risk factors). In Experimental Biology 2011. Washington, D.C.: The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology; 2011. (Kelley DS, Rasooly R, Jacob RA, et al: Consumption of Bing sweet cherries lowers circulating concentrations of inflammation markers in healthy men and women). J Nutr 2006;136:981-986.
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