{"id":874,"date":"2016-08-29T21:15:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T21:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/?p=874"},"modified":"2016-08-29T21:15:21","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T21:15:21","slug":"blueberries-recommended-arthritis-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/blueberries-recommended-arthritis-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arthritis Foundation Recommends Blueberries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A customer who travels a long distance every year for our blueberries e-mailed me today. She said this of our wild blueberres:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAbout a year after I began putting them in the smoothie I drink every morning, I noticed I no longer have the joint pain I had off-and-on for the last 30 years.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinated, I began researching the possible connections between alleviated joint pain and wild blueberries. \u00a0Though I don\u2019t know the specific reason for this customer\u2019s pain, I did learn that blueberries are good for easing arthritis symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <strong>Arthritis Foundation<\/strong>, the antioxidant power in blueberries protects the body against inflammation and free radicals, molecules that can damage cells and organs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Blueberries<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>contain 20 types of anthocyanin<\/strong> \u2013 antioxidants that give berries their blue-violet and red colors. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Other berries contain only three or four types<\/span>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Full article:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.arthritis.org\/living-with-arthritis\/health-benefits-berries\/\">Arthritis Foundation Recommends Blueberries<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Research finds that WILD blueberries contain up to 2X the antioxidant power found in regular blueberries. \u00a0And our wild blueberry lovers will tell you they are 2X tastier too!<\/p>\n<p>Wild blueberries retain their superior nutritional value when frozen, giving us all the benefits of this nutrient-rich fruit long after the season is over.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThere\u2019s NOTHING like a wild Maine blueberry!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Denise Alexander<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A customer who travels a long distance every year for our blueberries e-mailed me today. She said this of our wild blueberres: \u201cAbout a year after I began putting them in the smoothie I drink every morning, I noticed I no longer have the joint pain I had off-and-on for the last 30 years.\u201d Fascinated, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8,43,76,77,78],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-benefits-wild-blueberries","tag-antioxidants","tag-frozen-wild-blueberries","tag-wild-blueberries","tag-wild-blueberries-reduce-inflammation","tag-wild-blueberry-antioxidants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wildblueberries.me\/alexanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}