Lower your cholesterol
According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, heart disease is one of the leading causes of death among Canadian women. Luckily, the benefits of strawberries include powerful heart-health boosters. Ellagic acid and flavonoids or phytochemical can provide an antioxidant effect that can benefit heart health in various ways,explains Edwards. One way includes counteracting the effect of low-density lipoprotein, or LDL bad cholesterol in the blood, which causes plaque to build up in arteries. A second way is that they provide an anti-inflammatory effect, which is also good for the heart.Researchers at the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center in Toronto studied the benefits of strawberries on a cholesterol-lowering diet and concluded that adding them to the diet reduced oxidative damage, as well as blood lipids both of which play a role in heart disease and diabetes.Try adding more of these cholesterol-lowering foods into your diet.