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This is the Tom Harbin program.

And welcome back Tom Harbin here with you, our geeky science for the day to start out and then

we'll get to politics. Wild blueberries, I've talked about this before, blueberries seem to have an

effect on cognition. Well, you know, it's apparently very, very real. This was a study that was done

with older adults 65 to 80 years old. It was a substantial group of people. This was published in the

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. It included 61 healthy older adults between 65 and 80, all with

good cognitive abilities and no chronic diseases. And one group received a packet with 26 grams of

the wild blueberry powder equivalent to 178 grams of fresh wild blueberries. And the other group

received a package that looked and tasted like blueberry powder, but it contained fiber vitamin

C in flavoring. And so it did not have the substances that are believed to be beneficial in blueberries,

the polyphenols, the anthocyanins, and proscientins, flavonols, and phenolic acids, if I'm pronouncing

these correctly. And they had them use the powder for 12 weeks, three months. And what they found

was that the adults, the elderly adults 65 to 80 who took the blueberry powder, compared to the

placebo group, had measurably better and healthier blood vessels and performed better on cognitive

tasks compared to the group that had the placebo. Results show that consuming wild blueberry

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