Tart Cherry Juice Health Benefits

Less belly fat with cherries?

Tart cherry juice health benefits may include a reduced risk of metabolic syndrome and belly fat, according to recent cherry health research.

Using an animal model of metabolic syndrome, researchers fed two groups of rats a high fat diet for 90 days.

• One group received the high fat diet plus 1% tart cherry powder.

• The other group received the highfat diet matched for calories and macronutrients, but without the tart cherry powder.

The group receiving the cherries had

• less belly fat (abdominal retroperitoneal adipose tissue)

• lower blood lipid levels

• lower total body fatty mass

• hormonal pathway changes showing reduced systemic inflammation and metabolic syndrome.

Researchers suggest that the anthocyanins from the tart cherries modify the way energy is metabolized including the calories from a high fat diet (Seymour, Regular tart cherry intake alters abdominal adiposity, adipose gene transcription, and inflammation in obesity-prone rats fed a high fat diet, Journal Med Food, October 2009).

Metabolic syndrome includes obesity, high blood lipid levels, and systemic inflammation. It is associated with increased risk of diabetes type 2 and cardiovascular heart disease.

Tart cherries are the same sour red cherries traditionally used in pies.

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