Re: OT...Great Brain Food: Red Grapes

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I love freezing grapes in the summer. Mini frozen popsicles !!!

I separate them and put them on a cookie sheet till they freeze then put in

a ziplock bag.

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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get,

only with what you are expecting to give---which is everything.

~ Hepburn ~

> From: dnevessr@...

> Reply-To: alldiabeticinternational

> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 21:22:09 EDT

> To: GotDiabetes , alldiabeticinternational

> Subject: [alldiabeticinternational] OT...Great Brain Food: Red Grapes

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> Great Brain Food: Red Grapes

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> The pint-size fruit packs stroke protection

> by Gloria McVeigh

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> Make grapes a regular part of your diet, and you may survive a stroke

> with more brain cells intact. University of Missouri researchers who

> studied animal strokes that mimicked those in humans found that strokes

> produced unstable molecules that slowly decimated brain cells over the

> next few days.

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> A grape polyphenol called resveratrol absorbed some of the

> stroke-generated molecules, preventing part of the subsequent brain

> damage. Like red wine, scarlet grapes are high in resveratrol, which is

> concentrated in their seeds and skin.

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