I bet someone lost a few pounds anyway _ out of a pocket. This is a very interesting study and I’m sure it the results will please strawberry-lovers. However, I’m intrigued why this study was carried out at this time of year with expensive and relatively tasteless forced strawberries, rather than when strawberries are naturally sun-ripened (and considerably cheaper).
A team of volunteers ate half a kilo of strawberries a day for a month to see whether it altered their blood parameters in any way. At the end of this unusual treatment, their levels of bad cholesterol and triglycerides reduced significantly, according to the analyses conducted by Italian and Spanish scientists.
Several studies had already demonstrated the antioxidant capacity of strawberries, but now researchers from the Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM, Italy), together with colleagues from the Universities of Salamanca, Granada and Seville (Spain), conducted an analysis that revealed that these fruits also help to reduce cholesterol.
The team set up an experiment in which they added 500 g of strawberries to the daily diets of 23 healthy volunteers over a month. They took blood samples before and after this period to compare data.
The results, which are published in the ‘Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry’, show that the total…
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Pleased that you found another wordpress blog that interests you Colin. I am now following her because as you know I like my food. The sushi section was good. Do you think you could set up a similar type of class blog to support learners (with direct input from the learners).
Karolina mentioned fotobabble earlier and I am wondering if your catering students could take photos of their end product and talk about how it was prepared!
http://www.fotobabble.com/m/S0xPZ0x1bWx4ams9