Cholesterol with strawberries

Eating strawberries can reduce levels of bad cholesterol and triglycerides significantly, a study by scientists from Italy and Spain show. 

Strawberries are effective in lowering the levels of bad cholesterol

Polytechnic University researchers delle Marche (UNIVPM), Italy, with a team of researchers from the University of Salamanca, Granada and Seville, Spain, offer additional menu of about 1 pound of strawberries in the daily diet of 23 healthy volunteers for a month. The researchers collected blood samples of the participants before and after the study period to compare data. 
The results of these studies show that the amount of total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol number (bad cholesterol), and the number of triglycerides, fell to 8.78 percent, 13.72 percent and 20.8 percent each. For levels of good cholesterol (HDL), did not change the numbers.

Eat strawberries also improve other parameters such as total plasma lipid profiles, biomarkers of antioxidant (such as vitamin C), antihemolytic defense and platelet function. All parameters returned to values ​​after 15 days of eating strawberries every day. 

Although previous studies have shown that large strawberries are antioxidants, but researchers say this is the first study to find that strawberries can overcome the risk factors of cardiovascular disease. 
Although researchers admit that they do not know exactly what the compound that gives these positive effects, the researchers believe that the antosianinlah substance. Anthocyanin is the pigment that colors the particular fruit and vegetables such as red results. 

Further advantages of strawberry 

In another study, researchers found that eating strawberries can also protect the body from UV radiation, reducing the damage to the gastric mucosa to drink alcoholic beverages to build red blood cells or red blood cells and increases antioxidant capacity of the blood.