Berries – More than a pretty antioxidant

Berries that have been studied for their anticancer  as well as   Super Fruits  properties include raspberries (black and red), blackberries, blueberries, cranberries,strawberries, and elderberries.The fact that other anticancer mechanisms are at work has been shown by comparing the effectiveness of vitamin C (an antioxidant) with raspberries. The raspberries were used at a concentration where they had less antioxidant power than the vitamin C, and still the raspberries were more effective than vitamin C against cancer cells. This demonstrates that there is more than justantioxidation www.antiagingwonders.com going on. In other words, there are other components in raspberries that are blocking cancer (although the antioxidation helps too). Plants contain a variety of phytochemicals with very specific actions. If it was only the antioxidant power that mattered, you could just “dial up” a certain amount of antioxidants in your diet, such as deciding to always eat six prunes for breakfast. On the contrary, we should eat a wide variety and good quantity of other fruit and vegetables to receive exposure to as many potentially helpful nutrients as possible.

Berries can correct dysfunctional genes, block cell growth, induce apoptosis (programmed cell death of abnormal cells), inhibit angiogenesis (cancer blood vessel growth), and suppress cancer-inducing inflammation.