Why you need to eat apples

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Very often in life, we excessively value rare overseas products, endowing them with sometimes invented healing properties, and at the same time, we do not notice the gifts of fields and vegetable gardens that are familiar to us. This fully applies to apples.

Apples are so common and affordable that in our minds they do not pretend to be a miraculous natural remedy. Meanwhile, our ancestors were well aware of the healing properties of apples. It is not for nothing that they are so often found in fairy tales and legends as a symbol of fertility, beauty and health.

If we analyze the nutritional composition of apples, we will see that they mainly consist of water, practically do not contain fats and proteins, very few carbohydrates. But here there is a large number of essential vitamins and, above all, vitamin C.

In addition, apples contain various macro and microelements necessary for our body, including potassium, sodium, zinc, and so on. The calorie content is quite low: 100 g of apples contain on average about 45 kcal.

Life extension

According to a 2011 study by the American Chemical Society, scientists were able to prove a 10% increase in the lifespan of experimental animals on apple feeding.

There is also evidence of increased locomotor activity in these animals. Although research is currently being conducted in laboratory animals, there are no obstacles to applying the general findings to humans.

Improving memory

Consuming apples increases the production and amount of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in the brain, according to a study by the University of Massachusetts. It is a multifunctional hormone, one of the tasks of which is to modulate neuroplasticity, which is responsible for the brain's ability to change and build new structures.

Increasing the amount of acetylcholine in the brain improves memory, and also prevents the onset of Alzheimer's disease and slows down the decline in a person's mental abilities.

Reducing the risk of heart attacks and strokes

We all know about heart attacks, strokes and atherosclerosis that: a) this is a very bad thing; b) they are literally every second; c) the cause is very often an excess of LDL-cholesterol ("bad cholesterol").

What you almost don't know is that apples are able to reduce the amount of LDL cholesterol in patients by 23%. This is an incredible achievement: when treating patients suffering from high cholesterol, conventional drugs can lower LDL cholesterol by 18-50%, with a host of devastating side effects. Apples heal without side effects.

Reducing the risk of cancer

According to a study in Hawaii, there is a correlation between apple consumption and the risk of lung cancer in both sexes.

In a study in the group with the highest consumption of apples, a risk reduction of 40-50% was recorded. This can be explained by the high antioxidant activity of apples, which blocks certain processes in the human body that are responsible for the development of lung cancer.

What about other fruits?

A quite reasonable question arises: are these healing properties inherent only in apples, or are there other similar products?

Yes there is! This Cornell University study examines the antioxidant activity of various fruits. We can see that cranberries are the champion in terms of health benefits, with red grapes and strawberries lagging behind apples.

Improving memory, reducing the risk of various diseases and extending life expectancy are not so bad for a traditional fruit. And also very tasty!