Eating the Blues

We sing the blues but shouldn't we eat the blues as well? Well, we're in luck: it is blueberry season and we all could benefit from having some blues in our diets. Most of us encounter blueberries only minimally: folded into muffins or sprinkled into fruit salads.

However, science has been extremely invested in this pebble-sized super food as of late, conducting countless studies on this small wonder. Let's put it this way: if the blueberry were a Broadway play, a star-studded lineup of nutrients would be on the Playbill.

Blueberries feature a low glycemic index. A one half cup serving of blueberries is only forty calories, containing nutrients like potassium and iron as well and vitamin C. Blueberries also provide dietary fiber, in fact, two grams in