You could help keep your immune system fighting strong just by eating one or two of these little golden beauties every day: kiwifruit.
In a short study, eating a couple of golden kiwifruits daily dramatically reduced oxidative damage to immune-system-related cell structures in the study participants' bodies.
Sweet Protection
Golden kiwifruit is sweeter tasting but just as nutritious as its more common cousin -- green-hued kiwifruit. And in the study, the golden variety was responsible for dramatically boosting blood levels of several kinds of antioxidants -- including vitamin C -- after just 4 weeks of daily noshing. What's more, those little fruits appeared to reduce blood levels of two types of oxidative substances -- compounds that wreak havoc on cell health. And eating kiwifruit appeared to be particularly protective of lymphocytes -- a type of blood cell the immune system uses to protect the body from infection and disease.
Golden kiwifruit is sweeter tasting but just as nutritious as its more common cousin -- green-hued kiwifruit. And in the study, the golden variety was responsible for dramatically boosting blood levels of several kinds of antioxidants -- including vitamin C -- after just 4 weeks of daily noshing. What's more, those little fruits appeared to reduce blood levels of two types of oxidative substances -- compounds that wreak havoc on cell health. And eating kiwifruit appeared to be particularly protective of lymphocytes -- a type of blood cell the immune system uses to protect the body from infection and disease.
Guard Your Disease Fighters
Then there are kiwifruit's two bonus benefits: it also helped thin the blood (reducing the risk of blood clots) and helped dial down people's triglycerides -- a type of blood fat that may increase the risk of stroke or heart disease. If your local grocery store doesn't carry golden kiwifruit, consider the green variety. Other studies involving kiwifruit suggest the green variety may help lymphocytes repair existing oxidative damage to their DNA.
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