Blueberries may help control cholesterol and battle colon cancer, preliminary studies with laboratory animals suggest. Hamsters that ate high-cholesterol chow, to which freeze-dried blueberry skins had been added, had nearly 20 percent less LDL cholesterol—the “bad” kind—in their blood (plasma) than did hamsters not fed the blueberry-spiked rations, an ARS-led study has shown.
