Health

An apple a day really does keep the doctor away...

AS fruit, apple is known everywhere. Shiny-skinned fruit and crisp, making the apples much preferred. However, did you know that apple is actually store many myriad benefits both for health and beauty?

1. Substitute for Gymnastics Faces. Apples are packed with five grams of fiber content that is able to meet 20 percent of the value of our daily nutritional intake. Crunchy texture of the fruit which can force you to try to chew. This activity is useful as a replacement for facial gymnastics.

In addition, a natural sweetener in apple were able to enter the bloodstream gradually, helps maintain blood sugar and insulin levels stable so you feel full longer.

2. Protect Lungs and Prevent Asthma. Based on research developed from the United Kingdom, women who eat apples regularly during pregnancy may provide health benefits to the baby.

In addition, the consumption of apples can prevent children developing asthma when he reached five years. It also can protect the adult lungs, lowers the risk of asthma, lung cancer and other diseases.

3. Cholesterol scraper. Thanks to two key components, pectin (a type of fiber) and polyphenols (powerful antioxidants), apples can reduce blood cholesterol levels and prevents oxidation of LDL ("bad" cholesterol), the chemical process that converts into an artery clogging plaque.

The trick to maximize its benefits, do not discard the skin, because skin of apples have two to six times the antioxidant compounds such as meat.

4. Against Cancer. Laboratory studies have shown that several compounds in the fruit juicy and crisp flesh is capable of killing cancer cell growth. However, the efficacy will work well if the fruit is consumed as a whole.

People who chew more than one day more, low-risk cancer, from cancer of the mouth, esophagus, colon, breast, ovarian, prostate, and others. Researchers in Italy estimates, those who eat apples regularly can prevent this deadly disease by 42 percent.

5. Prevent senile. Perhaps because they increase the production of acetylcholine, a chemical that transmits messages between nerve cells, so the content of apples is able to maintain the sharpness of the brain as you age, increase memory, and potentially reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer's disease.

Recent research has been proved by researchers from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell that apples, like other fruits, are rich in fiber, phytochemicals, and flavonoids. However, according to the National Cancer Institute of the United States, most apples contain flavonoids compared with other fruits.

This substance, according to the report, can reduce the risk of a disease and lung cancer by 50 percent. While the Mayo Clinic research in the United States in 2001 proved that quacertin, a type of flavonoids contained in apples, may help prevent prostate cancer cell growth.

Phytochemicals in apples will serve sebagal antioxidants that fight bad cholesterol (LDL, Low Density Lipoprotein), which potentially clog blood vessels. Antioxidants will prevent damage to cells or vascular tissue. At the same time, the antioxidants will increase good cholesterol (HDL, High Density Lipoprotein), which is useful for preventing heart disease and blood vessels.

Not only that, the content of pectin (soluble fiber contained in fruits and vegetables), have been studied and shown to reduce levels of cholesterol in the blood. Specifically in an early study, it is evident that in apple found D-glucaric acid which helps them to control cholesterol levels. Mentioned in the study, type of acid is able to reduce cholesterol up to 35 percent.

Cholesterol levels are maintained and antioxidants will protect against heart attacks and strokes. This is evident in a study in Finland in 1996, that people whose diets contain phytochemicals, low risk for cardiovascular illness. Other studies, as quoted in The British Medical Journal revealed that apples also prevents the occurrence of stroke.

Phytochemical substances found in apple skin, according to a study at Cornell University in the United States, useful inhibits colon cancer cell growth by 43 percent. Phytochemicals and flavonoids together reportedly also reduce the number of lung cancer incidence.

Meanwhile, another study in Wales, United Kingdom, showed that regular consumption of apples will make lungs function better. The researchers believe will be better respiratory function because the content of phytochemicals in apples reduce the negative effects of oxidants that damage organs. So, eat an apple if you want to be healthy! (From various sources)