Eat Blue foods and other stuff

[richinma2005]

http://health.usnews.com/health-news/di ... foods.html

Blue M&M's. Rats given through-the-vein injections of the compound Brilliant Blue G soon after they received paralyzing spinal injuries regained the ability to walk, though with a clumsy gait, while injured rats that didn't get BBG were permanently paralyzed, researchers report today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. BBG is chemically similar to FD&C blue dye No. 1, the artificial colorant in blue foodstuffs ranging from those melt-in-your-mouth chocolates to blue Gatorade. In fact, Maiken Nedergaard, who led the research, says the two dyes "are so similar in chemical structure that we could [probably] exchange one for the other." Americans ingest more than 1 million pounds of FD&C blue dye No. 1 annually, according to the study. But before envisioning a day when paramedics drip blue food coloring through IVs at the scene of an accident, consider that what works in rats may not pan out in people. "This is just the beginning," says Nedergaard, who is codirector of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Another caveat: The dye-treated rats temporarily turned a bit, well, blue.