APPLE DIET

The fibre in the apple diet, found in the Pectin has two parts, one water soluble fiber fraction, the other insoluble:

1. The insoluble portion of Pectin improves bowel health by increasing the bulk and water content of the bowel.
2. The water soluble fiber in apple pectin is 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 absorption and blood pressure. They also provide an ideal environment for colon friendly bacteria.

75% of the fibre is found in the SKIN. Wash it carefully.

At Chiropractic Help we are concerned about the whole body, and not just your spine. While an adjustment may help the function of your bowel, it is clearly also important to be enjoying a healthy diet and getting plenty of exercise.

HERBAL FIBER SUPPLEMENT

Be sure to incorporate fiber into every meal in the form of whole fruits and vegetables and whole grain products. If you aren’t able to get enough fiber from your diet alone, consider adding an herbal fiber supplement to your daily routine. Fiber not only promotes feelings of lasting fullness, it also makes a great colon cleanse for full body detoxification.

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RESEARCH

• Research at the John Hopkins Medical Institute found that water soluble fiber 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. EXERCISE AND CHOLESTEROL ... - and blood pressure. Oats and apples both provide excellent water soluble fiber 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.

1. 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.
2. Apple Pectins have been shown to have a pronounced anti-mutagenic effects. They protect cells from cancerous change.
3. 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.
4. 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. BEETROOT CONSTIPATION .... )


5. Pectin in the apple diet modifies intestinal toxic bacterial enzyme activity in the gut, contributing to a protective effect against colon cancer.
6. Water soluble fiber 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, currant and plum.

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A Sin...

These English apples were left to fall and rot, simply because they didn't meet the must-be-perfect standards set by Brussels. Why weren't they at least pressed for apple juice or brewed into cider. Such waste... or even fed to pigs and horses.

FRESH SPINACH RECIPES apple avocado

Why Apple diet on a Chiropractic Help site?

Honest injun. A poor diet is as hazardous for your health as poorly managed subluxations. Heresy - maybe even worse!

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