About 32 healthy subjects are subjected to 4 weeks of exercise, 4 weeks of washout and 4 weeks of sedentary life style, randomization decides whether they start with exercise or with being "couch potatoes". All participants are also randomized to also consume 150 g of blueberries on exercise days or not. The exercise is constituted of 5 km running 5 days a week during the 4 week period. The exercise period and the "couch" period are started and ended with a 5 km run at maximal speed and the fasting blood samples for cardiovascular risk factors are measured before and after this run, ie 8 times in total.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
32
150 grams of frozen blueberries on the same day as exercise
Unnamed facility
Linköping, Sweden
markers for cardiovascular disease
Insulin levels, glucose levels, lipids, hs-CRP, troponin T
Time frame: 3 months
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