probiotics

If consumed along with rehydration powders, the probiotic drinks can cut the duration of stomach upsets like diarrhoea by almost a day.

The 'friendly bacteria' which come in yogurt drinks or capsules, destroy bad bacteria residing in the stomach and guts of ill patients.

However, further research is required to ascertain the benefits of probiotics in treating stomach problems, believe researchers.

This defense is enhanced if the blueberries are eaten along with probiotic yoghurt or health promoting bacteria.

Camilla Branning, a nutritionist, and Asa Hakansson, doctoral candidate in applied nutrition and food chemistry at Lund University, who authored the study stated, “In recent years the research world has been realizing that our health is governed to a great extent by what happens in our large intestine.”