Apple and all the usual fruit, but that is why they are often underestimated. Meanwhile, the consumption of apples in the absence of individual contraindications should be a daily habit, experts say.
Are you sure you know all about apples? So the question is nutritionist Oksana Skitalinskaia. She shared three facts about the extremely useful qualities of apples,which are not known to many.
In particular, the doctor noted, the consumption of apples helps to solve the problem of falling asleep, improves the quality of nighttime sleep. The fact that apples belong to the group of foods that contain natural melatonin, or stimulate the production of melatonin in the body. Melatonin is often called the “sleep hormone”, but thanks to this substance can not only better sleep. Melatonin has a rejuvenating effect, strengthens the body’s immune defenses and protects against cancer, reduces the risk of ischemic stroke.
Apples can act on the person as an effective antidepressant. Included in the apples phytonutrients have the ability to inhibit the excessive activity of an enzyme that stimulates the breakdown and rapid excretion of the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine. It is their deficiency in the body provokes the development of depression, despondency and depressive perception of reality. Apples “treat” this condition.
“An Apple a day keeps the oncologist?” – under this title the journal Annals of Oncology published an article in which scientists are advised to eat apples to prevent breast cancer. The study showed that compared with women who consumed less than one Apple a day, those who ate one more daily apples, the risk of developing breast cancer was 24% lower. Also, scientists have established a correlation between regular consumption of apples and reduced risk of ovarian cancer, larynx, colorectal cancer, and pancreatic cancer.
According to nutritionist, it is important to eat apples with the skin. The rind of the fruit is the first line of defense against external aggressors and has high levels of antioxidants and phytonutrients. In addition, Apple peel scientists have discovered a substance that activates the gene maspin protecting the body from the occurrence of mammary tumors. As noted Skitalinskaia, in the case of breast cancer “cancer cells turn off that gene, and the components of Apple peel is able to activate it again.”
Earlier Magicforum wrote about what foods can prolong life.