Berry Power!!!

Blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, and cherries. Real Berry Power! How wonderful to know that these colorful fruits are great for our health, and they may be the best medicines nature has to offer. In fact, their very colors offer much of their therapeutic value.
Everyday scientists are discovering that it is the most deeply colored berry and berry-like fruits that deliver the highest inherent healing potential. These include balckcurrants, elderberries,and goji-berries ( perhaps new to you ), and other fruits from around the world. The active biochemicals in these fruits are also found in grapes and in pine and cinnamon barks.

Berries are primarily known as powerful antioxidants. Because of this property, they have demonstrated an extremely wide range of health benefits. It is the very coloring of the berry, the clusters of molecules that make up the plants pigmentation that make them so beneficial. Overall, antioxidant power is the most potent protection that berries deliver. Antioxidants protect us against free radical attack.
Free radicals are highly destructive molecules that can cause extensive damage to the body and are now known to cause approximately 60 different diseases from cancer to blood clots to even damage of DNA.