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In a study involving rats, the researchers report that animals that received powdered tart cherries in their diet had lower total All of the rats had a predisposition toward high All the measures on which the two groups of animals differed are linked to metabolic syndrome, a collection of risk factors linked to high rates of heart disease and Type 2 diabetes.

Tens of millions of Americans have metabolic syndrome; most don’t know it.The researchers say the correlation between cherry intake and significant changes in metabolic measurements suggest a positive effect from the high concentrations of antioxidant compounds called anthocyanins that are found in tart cherries.

The new results were given today in an oral presentation at the Experimental Biology 2007 meeting in Washington, D.C.It’s not yet known if cherry-...

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