Eating apples has many benefits. Apples are rich in carbohydrates, vitamins and trace elements. Especially the content of vitamin A and carotene is higher.
It is rich in water-soluble dietary fiber-pectin. Pectin has the functions of protecting intestinal wall, activating beneficial bacteria in intestinal tract, regulating gastrointestinal function, absorbing water, eliminating constipation, stabilizing blood sugar, beautifying skin, adsorbing bile and cholesterol, and can effectively prevent hyperlipidemia, hypertension and hyperglycemia, clean intestinal tract and prevent colorectal cancer.
Malic acid and citric acid in apple sour taste can improve gastric juice secretion and promote digestion.
Malic acid can also stabilize blood sugar and prevent diabetes, so diabetics should eat sour apples.
Apples are rich in potassium, which can prevent and treat hypertension. China people's salt intake is seriously excessive, which leads to the retention of sodium and water in the body and promotes hypertension. Potassium can increase the excretion of sodium from the kidney and reduce the content of sodium in cells, thus lowering blood pressure. Potassium can also dilate blood vessels, and together with pectin can prevent metabolic syndrome.
Apples can also prevent cancer and lead poisoning.
Apple juice has a strong effect on killing infectious viruses. People who eat more apples are much less likely to catch a cold than those who don't eat or eat less apples. Therefore, some scientists and doctors call apples "all-round healthy fruits" or "general practitioners". Now the air pollution is more serious. Eating more apples can improve the respiratory system and lung function, and protect the lungs from pollution and smoke.
Apple has a natural and pleasant aroma, which has obvious effect of eliminating depression.
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that apples are flat in nature and have the effects of nourishing the heart and moistening the lungs, promoting fluid production and detoxifying, benefiting qi and regulating the stomach, sobering up and calming the liver.
But the key is that you should eat apples for a long time, just like running, and running occasionally can't achieve the effect!
There is no special time to eat apples. In order not to waste his nutrition, try not to eat on an empty stomach, and certainly not when he is just full.
To prevent the occurrence of these diseases you mentioned, my advice is: eat regularly, eat three meals a day, and be full and nutritious. People who skip breakfast are prone to diseases such as gallstones. Of course, if you can exercise regularly, it will be better than taking any good medicine.