APPLE DIET
THE MIND-BOGGLING APPLE
"The remedy oft in yourself doth lie."
- William Shakespeare

STOP PRESS: APPLE DIET - The European Commission has just passed legislation to enable the apple diet in schools (for which the princely sum of 90 million Euro has been set aside), to remove all junk food from schools and provide each child with a free apple or pear a day. Now that's putting your money where your mouth is!They obviously think it cheaper than building new hospitals for the mountain of diabetic children who have sprung up in Europe since the advent of the sweet tooth that Cola and snack companies have initiated. Will you do the same for your child? And yourself ...?
The apple diet saying, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away," has profound basis in fact, as apples have been scientifically proved to hold a preventive activity in bowel, lung and heart disease. Just consider the following! Proven!- Lung cancer
- Lung function
- Type 2 diabetes
- Heart disease
- High blood pressure
- Diarrhoea and constipation
- Bowel infections
- Colon cancer
- Colon inflammatory disease
- Heavy metal toxicity
APPLE INGREDIENTS
While there are obviously many ingredients in the not-so-humble-apple, scientists have proved that the following are important:Apple fibre called Pectin, a complex carbohydrate, Quercetin and other flavonoids, andVitamins and especially Vit CThe fibre in the apple, found in the Pectin has two parts, one soluble, the other insoluble: - The insoluble portion of Pectin improves bowel health by increasing the bulk and water content of the bowel.
- The soluble apple pectin fibres are transformed into a gel in the gut. These soluble pectin gel fibres stabilise blood sugar (and thus is particularly good for Type 2 diabetics), reduce cholesterol and blood pressure. They also provide an ideal environment for colon friendly bacteria.

The apple and the bicycle make a great team in the battle to keep healthy. Good friends - if you use them!In chiropractic we are concerned about the whole body. While an adjustment may help the function of your bowel, it is clearly also important to be enjoying a healthy diet.
RESEARCH
- Research at the John Hopkins Medical Institute found that soluble fibre lowers both cholesterol (interestingly, only the ‘bad’ part of cholesterol, called LDL, but not lowering the ‘friendly’ cholesterol HDL). In fact apple pectin actually raises the friendly HDLs.
- so does exercise -
and blood pressure. Oats and apples both provide excellent soluble fibre for the gut.
- Research in Russia compared two groups of patients hospitalised with serious gut infections. One group was given antibiotics, and the other antibiotics and apple pectin. The second group were discharged 2-3 days sooner, on average. Pectin has a bacteriostatic effect.
- A Ukraine study found that apple pectin binds toxic heavy metals in the gut, preventing them from being absorbed into the body.
- Yet another study found that apple pectin reduced inflammatory disease of the gut.
- An inverse association may exist between lung cancer risk and foods containing quercetin, found in high concentrations in apples and onions. More apples and onions, less lung cancer.
- Researchers have found an inverse relationship between lung cancer risk and food sources high in a key substance, quercetin, found in onions and apples.
- A study of 2512 Welsh coal minors found that lung function improved significantly with consumption of five apples per week.
"Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating - and absolutely useless unless we choose to use it." Richard Bach Will you start eating an apple a day? It will keep the doctor away you know!
Mechanisms of Action.
- The antioxidant quercetin plays a major role in affecting lung function and lowering the risk of lung cancer. In also prevents the formation of oxidised cholesterol in the gut, the very most dangerous form of cholesterol, that causes atherosclerosis, a killer.
- Apple Pectins have been shown to have a pronounced anti-mutagenic effects. They protect cells from cancerous change.
- Apple pectin decreases the incidence and number of colon tumours by lowering a destructive enzyme which forms a key step in carcinogen activation and tumour initiation in the colon.
- Apple pectin is a bulk-forming agent and prevents both diarrhoea and constipation by a similar mechanism.
(another of God's gifts to the constipated colon. )
- Pectin in the apple diet modifies intestinal toxic bacterial enzyme activity in the gut, contributing to a protective effect against colon cancer.
- Soluble fibre such as that found in apple pectin is known to decrease inflammation as measured by a a blood test for C-reactive protein. This protein has been associated with wide spread diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Fruits rich in pectin also include the peach, apple, currant, and plum.
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