Gardening Articles: Edibles :: Fruit & Nut Trees But Do Eat
Sound Apples! by Susan Littlefield An apple a day may indeed
keep the doctor away! In an apple industry-funded study done
recently at Ohio State University's Ohio Agricultural Research
and Development Center and published online in the Journal of
Functional Foods, researchers found that healthy, middle-aged
adults who ate one apple a day for four weeks had a forty
percent reduction in their blood levels of oxidized low-density
lipoprotein or LDL -- commonly called "bad cholesterol" --
compared to a control group. Oxidized LDL promotes inflammation
that can lead to tissue damage and hardening of the arteries. So
the pronounced reduction of oxidized LDL that resulted from
daily apple eating -- similar to the difference found between
people with normal coronary arteries versus those with coronary
artery disease -- is exciting news. Says lead researcher Robert
DiSilvestro, "We got a tremendous effect against LDL being
oxidized with just one apple a day f