blueberries for balance + coordination

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Hello everyone -I found a small paragraph in one of my recent health

magazine and noticed this - " Eating blueberries, one of the foods

highest in antioxidants, dramatically reversed memory loss and restored

motor coordination and balance in aging animals " - according to a new

Tufts University research study. " The animals ate an amount equal to

about 1/2 cup a day for humans " .

Now, it didn't say what type of animals this study was on, but I was

wondering about the 'restored motor coordination and balance' and even

though many of us with CMT are rather young, I wondered about eating

blueberries and if that would help our balance and coordination? I am

trying to find the exact whole study to read.

Does anyone eat blueberries and have you noticed a change in

coordination and balance? Does anyone know what 'ingredient' is in

blueberries that might help coordination and balance?

Gretchen

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Hi to everyone,

it sounds great that blueberries could improve balance but I see one

problem:

here in Germany we don' t get blueberries the whole year and even when we

get them they are very expensive. So the only chance is frosted blueberries

(which aren' t selled in the supermarkets very often, only as a mixture with

other berries). But are they as helpfull as fresh blueberries?

Just a suggestion.

Bye,

Gretchen Glick schrieb:

> Hello everyone -I found a small paragraph in one of my recent health

> magazine and noticed this - " Eating blueberries, one of the foods

> highest in antioxidants, dramatically reversed memory loss and restored

> motor coordination and balance in aging animals " - according to a new

> Tufts University research study. " The animals ate an amount equal to

> about 1/2 cup a day for humans " .

>

> Now, it didn't say what type of animals this study was on, but I was

> wondering about the 'restored motor coordination and balance' and even

> though many of us with CMT are rather young, I wondered about eating

> blueberries and if that would help our balance and coordination? I am

> trying to find the exact whole study to read.

>

> Does anyone eat blueberries and have you noticed a change in

> coordination and balance? Does anyone know what 'ingredient' is in

> blueberries that might help coordination and balance?

>

> Gretchen

>

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[Guest guest]

Gretchen, Lamar here,

I sincerely doubt that it would. I have tried various forms of antioxidant

supplements that are much stronger than this would be with no effect. Aging

causes more of a CNS degeneration as well as overall cellular degeneration.

CMT is genetic. Though we experience progression of symptoms, the genetic

defect is present at birth and remains the same. It is not a slow change as

in age, where various substances accumulate that weaken cellular function.

Incidentally it would be difficult to eat FRESH blueberries daily, and

prepared or preserved foods loose many of their antioxidants. BTW, I did

grow blueberries and ate at least that many in season, while my CMT

progressed.

blueberries for balance + coordination

> Hello everyone -I found a small paragraph in one of my recent health

> magazine and noticed this - " Eating blueberries, one of the foods

> highest in antioxidants, dramatically reversed memory loss and restored

> motor coordination and balance in aging animals " - according to a new

> Tufts University research study. " The animals ate an amount equal to

> about 1/2 cup a day for humans " .

>

> Now, it didn't say what type of animals this study was on, but I was

> wondering about the 'restored motor coordination and balance' and even

> though many of us with CMT are rather young, I wondered about eating

> blueberries and if that would help our balance and coordination? I am

> trying to find the exact whole study to read.

>

> Does anyone eat blueberries and have you noticed a change in

> coordination and balance? Does anyone know what 'ingredient' is in

> blueberries that might help coordination and balance?

>

> Gretchen

>

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> Come and buy today and get free shipping!

> http://click.egroups.com/1/4011/10/_/616793/_/958838881/

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