News about Healthy Berries
Berries have been a staple food for mankind for centuries.
Primitive peoples made them an important part of a healthy diet. Today, research is revealing that berries of all sorts may hold the keys to combating disease, increasing the quality of life and providing nutrition beyond basic sustenance.
The 2011 Berry Health Benefits Symposium is the only event solely dedicated to bringing together worldwide researchers in the field of berries and human health. Over twenty of the most renown scientists will discuss their most recent work and reveal how this most basic of foods can have a profound impact on many of the important diseases of aging. Topics to be showcased include Cancer, Metabolism, Gut Health, Heart Health, Brain Aging and Compositional Chemistry and Biological Effects.
The symposium is sponsored by every major berry organization in the United States, who join together in an effort to make this vital message of berries and health available to media, industry, academia and the public. The symposium is presented by the National Berry Crops Initiative, a nationwide organization whose mission is to develop a strategic plan for the continued growth and sustainability of berry crop production in the United States.
2011 will mark the fourth biennial Berry Health Benefits Symposium. News Media are invited to attend the symposium sessions; a limited number of press passes will be available. Contact Cat McKenzie - 541-456-2264 or catmc@peak.org for further information.
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Abstracts from the 2009 symposium are also published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry
"Health Promoting Foods:The Strawberry"
Britt Burton Freeman NCFST, IIT, UCD
"Berry Consumption in Humans: Bioavailability of Polyphenols and Effects on Cardiovascular Risk Factors"
Iris Erlund National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
“Cardiovascular Actions of Procyanidin-rich Foods and Beverages”
Roger Corder William Harvey Research Institute of London
“Exploring the Biological Activity of Berry Ellagitannin Metabolites”
Francisco Tomas-Barberan University of Murica, Spain
"Healthy Eating: Bioavailability of Dietary Flavonoids and Phenolics”
Alan Crozier University of Glasgow, Scotland
“Xenobiotic Metabolism and Berry Flavonoid Transport Across the Blood Brain Barrier”
Paul Milbury Tufts University
“Anthocyanins and Other Factors in Berries that Affect Development of Obesity"
Ron Prior USDA-ARS at Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, U of Arkansas
"Topical Black Raspberry Extract and Skin Cancer"
Tatiana Oberyszyn Ohio State University
"Anthocyanidins and Cancer Therapy, Different Routes to the Demise"
Xiao-Ming Yin University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
"Prevention of Aerodigestive Tract Cancers in Humans with Berries"
Gary Stoner Ohio State University
"Cranberry Phytochemicals as Potential Anticancer Agents"
Peter Ferguson University of Western Ontario
"Epidemiological Evidence of Antioxidant Nutrients and Brain Health"
Martha Clare Morris Rush Institute for Healthy Aging
"Alaska Wild Blueberries and Neuroinflammatory Signaling: Disrupting NADPH oxidase Assembly in Lipid Rafts"
Thomas B. Kuhn Universtiy of Fairbanks, Alaska
“Behavioral Effects of Berries in Aging and Aging Radiation Models”
Barbara Shukitt-Hale USDA-ARS at Tufts University
Quenching the “Fires” of Inflammatory and Oxidative Stress: “Food Parings for Healthy Brain Aging”
Dr. Jim Joseph USDA-ARS at Tufts University
“Interventions in Cognitive Aging”
Robert Krikorian Universtiy of Cincinnati, College of Medicine
“Berry Tannins and Gut Health”
Jess Reed University of Wisconsin
“Effect of Jam Processing and Storage on Polyphenolics and Antioxidant Capacity of Blueberries”
Luke Howard University of Arkansas
”Raspberries and Human Health:Time for Recognition"
Venket Rao University of Toronto
"Bacterial Anti-adhesion Activity of Cranberry Proanthocyanidins "
Amy Howell Rutgers University
"Recent Research on Blueberries and Vision"
Wilhemina Kalt Agriculture and AgriFoods Canada
“Berry Resources and Human Health Under the Cloud of Climate Change”
Mary Ann Lila North Carolina Research Campus at Kanapolis
Abstracts from the 2007 symposium are also published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry
Berry Fruits: Compositional Elements, Biochemical Activities, and the Impact of Their Intake on Human Health, Performance, and Disease.
Seeram, Navindra P.
Berry Fruits for Cancer Prevention: Current Status and Future Prospects
Seeram, Navindra P.
Antioxidants, Phenolic Compounds, and Nutritional Quality of Different Strawberry Genotypes
Tulipani, S.; Mezzetti, B.; Capocasa, F.; Bompadre, S.; Beekwilder, J.; de Vos, C. H. R.; Capanoglu, E.; Bovy, A.; Battino, M.
Bioavailability of Pelargonidin-3-O-glucoside and Its Metabolites in Humans Following the Ingestion of Strawberries with and without Cream
William Mullen, Christine A. Edwards, Mauro Serafini, and Alan Crozier
Isolation and Identification of Strawberry Phenolics with Antioxidant and Human Cancer Cell Antiproliferative Properties
Zhang, Yanjun, Seeram, Navindra P., Lee, Rupo, Feng, Lydia, and Heber, David
Ellagitannin Composition of Blackberry As Determined by HPLC-ESI-MS and MALDI-TOF-MS
Hager, Tiffany J., Howard, Luke R., Liyanage, Rohana, Lay, Jackson O., and Prior, Ronald L.
Whole Berries versus Berry Anthocyanins: Interactions with Dietary Fat Levels in the C57BL/6J Mouse Model of Obesity
Prior, Ronald L., Wu, Xianli, Gu, Liwei, Hager, Tiffany J., Hager, Aaron, and Howard, Luke R.
Processing and Storage Effects on Monomeric Anthocyanins, Percent Polymeric Color, and Antioxidant Capacity of Processed Blackberry Products
Hager, Tiffany J., Howard, Luke R., and Prior, Ronald L.
Cranberry Proanthocyanidins Induce Apoptosis and Inhibit Acid-Induced Proliferation of Human Esophageal Adenocarcinoma Cells
Kresty, Laura A., Howell, Amy B., and Baird, Maureen
Identification of Anthocyanins in the Liver, Eye, and Brain of Blueberry-Fed Pigs
Kalt, Wilhelmina, Blumberg, Jeffrey B., McDonald, Jane E., Vinqvist-Tymchuk, Melinda R., Fillmore, Sherry A. E., Graf, Brigitte A., O’, Leary, Jennifer M., and Milbury, Paul E.
Phytochemical Composition and Metabolic Performance-Enhancing Activity of Dietary Berries Traditionally Used by Native North Americans
Burns Kraft, Tristan F., Dey, Moul, Rogers, Randy B., Ribnicky, David M., Gipp, David M., Cefalu, William T., Raskin, Ilya, and Lila, Mary Ann
Enzyme-Assisted Processing Increases Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Activity of Bilberry
Puupponen-Pimi, Riitta, Nohynek, Liisa, Ammann, Sabine, Oksman-Caldentey, Kirsi-Marja, and Buchert, Johanna
Berry Fruit Supplementation and the Aging Brain
Shukitt-Hale, Barbara, Lau, Francis C., and Joseph, James A.
Regulation of Adipocyte Function by Anthocyanins; Possibility of Preventing the Metabolic Syndrome
Tsuda, Takanori
