healthlifeblog: Tart Cherries May Be able to Reduce Belly Fat

517161705_32752b6e8d[1] There have been one or two stories just recently about certain fruit and how they can help reduce belly fat, I came across another one today and it seemed to coincide quite nicely with the post I wrote the other day. Instead of blueberries this time it’s Tart Cherries and this is one fruit I have never actually heard of.

It’s been found that eating this particular fruit can help with problems which revolve around something called metabolic syndrome, and risks involved with cardiovascular problems heart disease and the problems associated with it which can be diabetes, high blood pressure, levels of cholesterol, blood sugar levels etc.

The particular study was funded by the Cherry Marketing Institute, they had no particular say what was done in the study but provided the funding for it, in the particular study which was carried out on mice they identified a group of mice that had some of the symptoms of metabolic syndrome.

What the mice ate in their diet was a high fat and in moderation carbohydrate diet, or a low fat high carbohydrate diet, the mice within the group that ate the Cherry powder within their diet were monitored for a 12 week period.

After which certain levels were checked the cholesterol levels in the mice were reduced by 12 percent, body fat was 54 percent, and compared to the other group which were not fed the powder their body fat percentage was 64 percent.

The most noticeable place that the body fat was not present was around the abdominal area, one of the reasons this might be happening is due to the high antioxidant levels that the cherries contain yet another victory for eating certain fruits I have a feeling that quite a few more of these stories will pop up over time.

Source http://www.freshplaza.com/

Tags: blood sugar, diabetes