2011 Berry Health Benefits Symposium in June

Berries are increasingly viewed as having a profound impact against the diseases of aging including cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and age related mental decline.

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Are berries truly a superfood with health benefits for everyone? The evidence was heard at the 4th Biennial Berry Health Benefits Symposium, which was held June 27-29. 

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.

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Abstracts from the conference on the health benefits of Berries can be found here:

Britt Burton Freeman NCFST, IIT, UCD	"Health Promoting Foods:The Strawberry"
Iris Erlund National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland	"Berry Consumption in Humans: Bioavailability of Polyphenols and Effects on Cardiovascular Risk Factors"
Roger Corder William Harvey Research Institute of London	“Cardiovascular Actions of Procyanidin-rich Foods and Beverages”
Francisco Tomas-Barberan University of Murica, Spain	“Exploring the Biological Activity of Berry Ellagitannin Metabolites”
Alan Crozier University of Glasgow, Scotland	"Healthy Eating: Bioavailability of Dietary Flavonoids and Phenolics”
Paul Milbury Tufts University	“Xenobiotic Metabolism and Berry Flavonoid Transport Across the Blood Brain Barrier”
Ron Prior USDA-ARS at Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center, U of Arkansas	“Anthocyanins and Other Factors in Berries that Affect Development of Obesity"
Tatiana Oberyszyn Ohio State University	"Topical Black Raspberry Extract and Skin Cancer"
Xiao-Ming Yin University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine	"Anthocyanidins and Cancer Therapy, Different Routes to the Demise"
Gary Stoner Ohio State University	"Prevention of Aerodigestive Tract Cancers in Humans with Berries"
Peter Ferguson University of Western Ontario	"Cranberry Phytochemicals as Potential Anticancer Agents"
Martha Clare Morris Rush Institute for Healthy Aging	"Epidemiological Evidence of Antioxidant Nutrients and Brain Health"
Thomas B. Kuhn Universtiy of Fairbanks, Alaska	"Alaska Wild Blueberries and Neuroinflammatory Signaling: Disrupting NADPH oxidase Assembly in Lipid Rafts"
Barbara Shukitt-Hale USDA-ARS at Tufts University	“Behavioral Effects of Berries in Aging and Aging Radiation Models”
Dr. Jim Joseph USDA-ARS at Tufts University	Quenching the “Fires” of Inflammatory and Oxidative Stress: “Food Parings for Healthy Brain Aging”
Robert Krikorian Universtiy of Cincinnati, College of Medicine	“Interventions in Cognitive Aging”
Jess Reed University of Wisconsin	“Berry Tannins and Gut Health”
Luke Howard University of Arkansas	“Effect of Jam Processing and Storage on Polyphenolics and Antioxidant Capacity of Blueberries”
Venket Rao University of Toronto	”Raspberries and Human Health:Time for Recognition"
Amy Howell Rutgers University	"Bacterial Anti-adhesion Activity of Cranberry Proanthocyanidins "
Wilhemina Kalt Agriculture and AgriFoods Canada	"Recent Research on Blueberries and Vision"
Mary Ann Lila North Carolina Research Campus at Kanapolis	“Berry Resources and Human Health Under the Cloud of Climate Change”