Tuesday, January 21, 2014

An apple a day...


150 years ago, when the saying first seems to have begun, it was "Eat an apple on going to bed, and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread"



Then "an apple a day, no doctor to pay".

Either way, even though that pithy little saying is pretty recent, it seems apples have been used as a part of medicine for over 1,500 years.

The American Heart Association has published an article showing that an apple a day is associated with a 9% lessened risk of stroke.

More recently, Oxford University has recently calculated that an apple a day would prevent about 8,500 deaths from heart attacks and strokes every year. 

Considering the population of Great Britain, that translates into almost 40,000 fewer deaths per year in the United States!

Apples?  Who knew?

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