{"id":91446,"date":"2019-05-30T14:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T21:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/eating-blueberries-every-day-improves-heart-health"},"modified":"2019-05-30T14:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T21:22:47","slug":"eating-blueberries-every-day-improves-heart-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/eating-blueberries-every-day-improves-heart-health","title":{"rendered":"Eating blueberries every day improves heart health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eating-blueberries-every-day-improves-heart-health2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We found that eating one cup of blueberries per day resulted in sustained improvements in vascular function and arterial stiffness\u2014making enough of a difference to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by between 12 and 15 percent.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Eating a cup of blueberries a day reduces risk factors for cardiovascular disease\u2014according to new research led by the University of East Anglia, in collaboration with colleagues from Harvard and across the UK.<\/p>\n<p>New findings published today in the <i>American Journal of Clinical Nutrition<\/i> show that eating 150g of blueberries daily reduces the risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/cardiovascular+disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cardiovascular disease<\/a> by up to 15 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The research team from UEA\u2019s Department of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine, Norwich Medical School, say that blueberries and other berries should be included in dietary strategies to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease\u2014particularly among at risk groups.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-05-blueberries-day-heart-health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found that eating one cup of blueberries per day resulted in sustained improvements in vascular function and arterial stiffness\u2014making enough of a difference to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by between 12 and 15 percent. Eating a cup of blueberries a day reduces risk factors for cardiovascular disease\u2014according to new research led by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}