A study published in the Journal of Nutrition claims that eating prunes can help ward off heart disease. American researchers discovered that when mice were fed on regular snacks of prunes they were less likely to develop atherosclerosis – furring of the arteries with fatty deposits and a risk factor for heart disease. In the study, scientists gave powdered prunes to mice with high-cholesterol diets. Prunes are low in fat and high in fibre, which is beneficial for the cardiovascular system. Five months later they measured the amount of cholesterol that had accumulated in the blood vessels and found that cholesterol levels were significantly lower in those mice fed a daily diet of prune power.

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