Berries Keep the Brain Young, New Study Reports

The same can be said about almost everything we eat or drink...

Provided we eat just enough of it.

True, except not everything we eat or drink has equal value to the health of our bodies.

Most of what we put into our bodies doesn't have the high nutritional value that we really need. There is such an increase of cancers, diabetes, heart disease, etc. in the last 30 years that it certainly points toward extreme deficiencies in our diet or some other factor that we don't understand yet.

One of the things that is talked about in the article is the importance of anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties, minerals and vitamins found in fruits, especially. Wild blueberries are much higher in anti-oxidant properties than elderberry, strawberry, raspberry, etc. A fruit from the Amazon named the Acai berry is much, much higher than any of them. People who live there and consume this fruit eventhough they are close to the Equator experience a very low rate of cancers and other diseases which are very prominent in areas where that fruit is not available fresh, consumed within 24 hours. After that the fruit breaks down and loses it's nutritional value. If you want to look at some information about this fruit, look up; Acai: An Extraordinary Antioxidant-Rich Palm Fruit from the Amazon (Biosocial Publications) by Dr. Alex Schauss. There are many other fruits that we don't have access to here in this country that have great nutritional properties.

Anti-oxidants are important because they help get rid of a lot of the things in our bodies that cause many pathological diseases.

A good picture of what is happening to our bodies daily is when you take a bite of an apple and set it down for awhile. It starts to turn brown. That is the oxidation process taking place and our bodies are the same. If we can inhibit that process at the cellular level through better nutrition we are much better off.

Now if we could just genetically modify the "Dingle Berries" we deal with every day to be as good for our health as they are bad for it then we would live for centuries!