Two studies may give you more reasons to like blueberries

Who ate the 364 million pounds of cultivated blueberries grown in the United States in 2009? Hopefully you did. The health benefits of blueberries have been touted for years, but two new studies, the Orlando Sentinel writes, underscore how the low-sugar fruit may help folks at risk of diabetes and high blood pressure.

Arpita Basu, an Oklahoma State University nutritional sciences professor and lead author of a study published in the Journal of Nutrition, found a seven- to eight-point drop in the systolic blood pressure of 66 pre-hypertensive men and women who included a blueberry drink in their diet once a day for eight weeks.

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This is early research to be sure, so if you don’t like blueberries (what’s wrong with you?), don’t add them to your diet for this reason. But if you do like blueberries, here’s another reason to feel good about that.

--Mary Forgione