The news about blueberries just keeps getting better and better. Earlier this year a University of Michigan study revealed that the darkly pigmented fruit helps reduce the waistline, lower cholesterol, and high blood sugar.
University of Michigan staff put some overweight rats on a high fat diet and another group of equally obese rats on a low fat diet enhanced with freeze-dried blueberry powder. After a 3 month period the low and high fat groups were compared. The rats on the blueberry enhanced diet lost belly fat, and their cholesterol and harmful triglyceride levels declined. Their blood sugar levels improved too