{"id":3011,"date":"2011-08-07T09:14:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T13:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=3011"},"modified":"2011-08-22T09:14:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T13:14:35","slug":"these-berries-naturally-lower-cholesterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/08\/07\/these-berries-naturally-lower-cholesterol\/","title":{"rendered":"These Berries Naturally Lower Cholesterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2011\/01\/16\/stop-snoring-program\/603-revision-10\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1863\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1863\" title=\"blueberries\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/blog\/home\/blueher1\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/blueberries-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A new study has solidified blueberry\u2019s standing as a top Superfood by finding that it has the ability to lower chronically high cholesterol levels. The study, conducted in animal models, found unequivocally that compounds in blueberries have anti-cholesterol abilities.<\/p>\n<p>The study \u2013conducted by scientists at the US Department of Agriculture\u2014tested the effects of blueberry peels on blood cholesterol in a group of hamsters. They found that blueberries lowered \u201cbad\u201d LDL cholesterol by an impressive 27 percent. Also, the hamster\u2019s levels of even-worse VLDL cholesterol significantly decreased as well. The scientists guess that blueberry\u2019s high levels of antioxidants are likely responsible for their cholesterol-lowering effects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/cholesterol\/\">More Superfoods that knock out cholesterol&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To Your Health,<\/p>\n<p>Scott Davis<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study has solidified blueberry\u2019s standing as a top Superfood by finding that it has the ability to lower chronically high cholesterol levels. The study, conducted in animal models, found unequivocally that compounds in blueberries have anti-cholesterol abilities. The study \u2013conducted by scientists at the US Department of Agriculture\u2014tested the effects of blueberry peels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-cholesterol"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}