Cholesterol

All of the rats in the study had a predisposition toward high For 90 days beginning in their sixth week of life, the rats were fed either a carbohydrate-enriched diet or a diet that included either 1- or 10-percent cherries.

The higher cherry dose was included to investigate toxic effects; none were seen.

By the end of the study, the rats that received the 1-percent cherry diet had significantly lower total The same was true for those on the 10-percent cherry diet, compared with rats that received a diet with an equivalently high level of carbohydrates not from cherries.

The researchers also measured plasma TEAC, a test of antioxidant capacity in the blood, in which a higher reading means better ability to neutralize damaging free radical molecules produced in the body during metabolis...

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