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Eating blueberry helps lose weight 2-29-08
A new study by New Zealand and US
researchers suggests that eating blueberry or taking a blueberry extract
supplement may help people lose weight by reducing intake of calories.
The study published in the recent issue of Food Chemistry showed rats fed 1
milliliter of blueberry extract per day for six days gained near 10 percent less
body weight compared to those without receiving the extract.
The observation was coupled with about 8 percent decrease in food intake,
according to the study. The decrease the researchers said suggests that
blueberry extract had a satiety effect.
In the study, two cultivars, "Maru" and "Centurion" fruits were extracted with
water and study rats were tube-fed 1 ml of the blueberry extract daily for six
days.
Dr Abdul Molan and co-workers from Massey University (New Zealand) and the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found feeding blueberry extract
increased the circulating antioxidant levels in the blood in the groups of rats
fed blueberry extract.
Both Maru and Centurion cultivars reduced weight gain by 9.2 and 5.3 percent
respectively and cut food intake by 8.6 and 6.2 percent respectively.
The mechanism behind the reduced food intake remains unknown. The researchers
suggested that use of blueberry extract increases the feel of fullness and
prompted the animals to eat less food.
Comment:
If you do the math the rats were feed 1 ml of blueberry and ate about 1 ml less each day! You are not going to lose weight by eating blueberries or taking blueberry supplements. However, blueberry (bilberry) are well worth the investment for their great benefits for vascular heath as well as their antibacterial properties.