Apple Profit

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away”

Health Benefits-
Apple is an excellent source of pectin, a fiber that helps reduce blood cholesterol and possibly prevents cancer. One medium-sized apple provides five grams of dietary fiber, or 20 per cent of the recommended intake of fiber. It also contains many anti oxidants that benefit the body as follows.

Weight loss properties
A study by Brazilian scientists showed that women who ate apples everyday lost more weight than those who didn’t.

Controls Cholesterol
The pectin found in apples lowers LDL or the ‘bad’ cholesterol. People who eat two apples per day may lower their cholesterol by as much as 16 percent

Prevents heart disease and stroke
Research has confirmed that flavonoids, a type of antioxidant abundant in apples, help prevent heart disease and stroke. So, next time you peel off the apple skin you are going lose its nutrition, hence remember not to peel the skin

Strong bones
Research by French scientists found that post menopausal women who ate apple benefitted from a flavonoid called as phloridzin which protected them from osteoporosis and also increased their bone density.

Apple is also known to reduce the symptoms of asthma in children, reduce signs of anti-aging and help manage diabetes by reducing the insulin requirement of the body by 35%.