I just published Blueberries Won’t Save Your Life #blueberries #health #diethttps://link.medium.com/W4XBn3znvU
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This weeks' blog is on a great story - blueberries prevent heart disease almost as much as heart medications! If that seems unlikely to you, well, it really is
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Blueberries are great - they're a low-sugar tasty snack whose main drawback is that they are super expensive - but they definitely aren't a cure for heart disease So why were there literally hundreds of media organisations saying that they are?
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There was a narrative review of a few blueberry studies released this week. It looked at blueberries compared to a placebo control and found some minor improvements in one measure of blood pressure
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There were also some studies leading up to this trial that laid out a theoretical framework for the research
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All of this was funded by - wait for it - the Wild Blueberry Association You literally can't make this stuff up
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So a tiny trial with marginal benefits funded by blueberry growers was promoted as "blueberries are as good as heart pills" Hilarious nonsense
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If you want to know more read the blog!
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