Cut belly fat with tart cherries

Natural News posted a new cherry study from the University of Michigan.
Researchers found that adding tart cherries to your diet may help reduce your
risk of cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome. The study fed mice one of
two diets: a high fat, moderate carbs diet (45% calories from fat, 40% calories
from carbs) OR a low fat, high carbs diet (10% calories from fat, 75% calories
from carbs).

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Mice that were given added cherry powder to either diet had an 11% reduction
in cholesterol after three months. In addition, the mice who had cherry powder
had 54% body fat compared to 63% body fat in the mice that did not eat cherry
powder. Most of the fat reduction was around the belly area of the mice.

The mice that ate cherry also had a 40% reduction in the TNF-alpha
inflammation marker and 31% reduction in the IL-6 inflammation marker. The
researchers found that “the activity of the genes producing these two compounds
was reduced in the mice, suggesting that tart cherries may reduce inflammation
at a systemic level.”