Lowering blood lipids: Japan's Fruit Tree Research Institute's human trials show that eating two apples a day for three weeks after the subjects in the blood triglyceride levels decreased by 21%, and high triglyceride levels are the main culprits of vascular sclerosis. When the pectin of apples enters the body, it combines with bile acids and absorbs excess cholesterol and triglycerides like a sponge, then excretes them from the body. At the same time, the acetic acid decomposed by apples facilitates the decomposition and metabolism of these two substances. In addition, the vitamins, fructose and magnesium in apples can also reduce their levels.
Lowering Blood Pressure: Excess sodium is an important factor in causing high blood pressure and stroke. Apples contain sufficient potassium, which can combine with excess sodium in the body and expel it from the body, thus lowering blood pressure. At the same time, potassium ions can effectively protect blood vessels and reduce the incidence of hypertension and stroke. Dr. Susan Orridge, a renowned British pharmacologist, found that the polyphenols and flavonoids contained in apples can effectively prevent cardiovascular diseases.
Preventing cancer: A study by Hirosaki University in Japan confirmed that polyphenols in apples can inhibit the proliferation of cancer cells. And a Finnish study is even more exciting: apples contain flavonoids is a highly effective antioxidant, it is not only the best blood vessel cleaning agent, but also cancer nemesis. If people eat more apples, the chances of getting lung cancer can be reduced by 46%, and the chances of getting other cancers can also be reduced by 20%. New research from the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research also tells us that proanthocyanidins in apples can prevent colon cancer.
Antioxidant effect: Cornell University's research team dipped the brain cells of rats into a liquid containing oak extract and vitamin C, and found that the antioxidant capacity of brain cells was significantly enhanced. Compared with other vegetables and fruits, apples contain the best oak extract, and red apples are better than yellow and green apples. Therefore, for people with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's syndrome, apples are the best food.
Strengthen bones: apples contain the mineral elements boron and manganese that can strengthen bones. A study in the United States found that boron can substantially increase the concentration of estrogen and other compounds in the blood, and these substances can effectively prevent calcium loss. Medical experts believe that menopausal women, if they can consume 3 grams of boron per day, then their calcium loss rate can be reduced by 46%, menopausal women eat more apples, is conducive to the absorption and utilization of calcium, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.
Maintaining acid-base balance: 70% of the diseases occur in acidic body, and apples are alkaline food, eating apples can quickly neutralize the body's excessive acid (including exercise-generated acid and fish, meat, eggs, and other acidic food in the body to produce acidic metabolites), to enhance the physical strength and resistance to disease.
"An apple a day, the doctor away from me." Among many fruits, the apple can be said to be one of the most common and calm, but its nutritional value should not be underestimated. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it can produce fluids and moisten the lungs, strengthen the spleen and open the stomach. Nutritional analysis, pointed out that the apple contains the most fructose, and contains a variety of organic acids, pectin and trace elements.
Apple pectin is a soluble fiber, which not only promotes cholesterol metabolism, effectively reducing cholesterol levels, but also promotes the fat out of the body. The French have done an experiment, so that a group of healthy middle-aged men and women eat two or three apples a day for a month, measure their body cholesterol levels, found that 80% of the people in the blood of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL also known as bad cholesterol) have been reduced; at the same time, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL that is, good cholesterol) has increased. The cardiovascular benefits of apples are evident.
Apples contain the trace element potassium can dilate blood vessels, which is beneficial to patients with high blood pressure, and zinc is also essential to the human body, the lack of which can lead to blood sugar metabolism disorders and sexual function decline.
Eating apples raw, in addition to the above benefits, can also regulate the stomach, because it is rich in fiber, which helps excretion. On the other hand, people with diarrhea eat it is also beneficial, because malic acid with astringent effect, but must pay attention to, such as the spleen and stomach cold type of chronic diarrhea, it is necessary to use the apple wrapped in tinfoil, baked or simmered cooked before eating.
Apples are rich in nutrients, calories are not high, very popular with dieters. Therapeutic aspects, with apple skin and ginger pieces of boiled water to drink, can stop vomiting. Apple with pears can reduce the pear cold, more strengthened and moisturize the lungs and stomach effect. Autumn sugar water, with apples, pears several, plus lily 1 two (30 grams), dendrobium 5 money (15 grams), north and south apricot 3 money (9 grams), can moisten the lungs and relieve cough.
Weight loss: apples will increase satiety, eat before meals can reduce the amount of food, to achieve the purpose of weight loss.