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Blog author, Solai Buchanan is an experienced Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator with an MS from Columbia Teachers College. She specializes in treating heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, polycystic ovarian syndrome,and other chronic diseases. She is a provider at a full-service cardiology practice accepting most insurance and staffed with a primary care MD, pediatrician, and cardiologist. Call: 718.894.7907. NYCC is lead by Interventional Cardiologist Sanjeev Palta, MD, FSCAI, FACC. He trained at Cornell-Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and the State University Hospital of Brooklyn. He currently is an Attending Cardiologist at New York Methodist Hospital and Maimonides Medical Center. He is also an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Having performed over 2000 invasive cardiac procedures Dr. Palta’s patients know they are in trusted hands.

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Eating Strawberries Can Make Red Blood Cells Stronger

In a recent study, the researchers from Italy's Marche Polytechnic University, healthy volunteers were fed 500 grams of strawberries per day (about 3 cups) for two weeks. Blood samples were taken after four, eight, 12 and 16 days, as well as a month later. The results showed eating strawberries improved the antioxidant capacity of blood plasma and also made the red blood cells more resistant to fragmentation.

"We have shown that regularly eating strawberries make red blood cells more resistant to oxidative stress", lead author Maurizio Battino, said.  It is believed that consuming a diet high in antioxidants found in berries and other fruits and vegetables may help keep red blood cells robust and longer-lived.  "The important thing is that strawberries should form a part of people's healthy and balanced diet, as one of their five daily portions of fruit and vegetables," Battino added.

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