# Blueberries benefits

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueberries-benefits/603541>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 20, 2011, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueberries-benefits/603541 "2011-11-20T12:39:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueberries-benefits/603541/41 "2011-11-22T23:31:45Z")

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> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#):
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> . . . Epistemological studies on the evidential nutritional studies are very difficult to control to any degree of statistical certainty simply because a natural population of people will eat such a wide variation of diets (and even within individual diets, a wide normal range of nutrients) so isolating a benefit from one specific micronutrient is largely a matter of subjective fitting of the data; a slight change in statistical parameters can alter the significance of results from dramatic benefit to down in the noise. . . .

Well, indeed, how do we really know anything? What does it even _mean_ to know that blueberries are good for you?

Epidemiological studies are also quite difficult to do satisfactorily.

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**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueberries-benefits/603541/42 "2011-11-22T23:49:01Z")

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> [@rat\_avatar](#):
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> The small number of clinical trials that have been done in an attempt to confirm the epidemiological studies claims show that they do not “contribute to health and wellness”
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> Clinical trials show have shown that low fat diets, massive doses of vitamin E, Hormone replacement, B vitamins and Omega-3 are not a large factor in cardiovascular health.
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> They have also shown that Omega-3, fiber and large doses of vitamin E do not reduce the risks of cancer like the epidemiological evidence suggests.

If you bother to actually read through what I have written you will note that I did not make or promote any of the claims that you have made above.

> [@njtt](#):
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> Well, indeed, how do we really know anything? What does it even _mean_ to know that blueberries are good for you?
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> Epidemiological studies are also quite difficult to do satisfactorily.

First, you have to grok the blueberry…😉

Stranger

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**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2011, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueberries-benefits/603541/43 "2011-11-22T23:49:18Z")

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Here is the source of blueberries (2 CUPS a day) for breast health:

[http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/health/your\_health&id=7388978](http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/health/your_health&id=7388978)

I mean, GOLLY, if you can’t trust ABC News, who CAN you trust?

_eyeroll_  
~VOW

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueberries-benefits/603541/44 "2011-11-23T00:42:31Z")

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Wouldn’t one have to juice or otherwise liquify the berries before one could grok them?

(aside: guess which word in that sentence isn’t in Firefox’s spellcheck)

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**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2011, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blueberries-benefits/603541/45 "2011-11-23T10:38:01Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Wouldn’t one have to juice or otherwise liquify the berries before one could grok them?
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> (aside: guess which word in that sentence isn’t in Firefox’s spellcheck)

Is it “liqu **e** fy”?

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