An Apple a Day...
Sunday October 28, 2007
keeps the doctor away? Maybe. Apples are certainly more than just the tasty part of a pie. One medium apple has less than 100 calories, vitamins, minerals and four grams of heart-healthy fiber. As long as you eat the skin, that is. An apple without the skin is still good for you, but eating the colorful skin adds fiber and natural antioxidants called bioflavoniods. Eating apples with those bioflavonoids may help to lower cholesterol and keep your lungs healthy. Does it matter which apples you eat? A reader wants to know if all apples are the same health-wise, or if different apples have different nutritional values. Read my answer to her question about different colored apples.
The best way to eat an apple is whole, skin and all. For an extra treat, you could cut the apple into small pieces, place them in a dish, drizzle a tiny bit of caramel sauce over the top and sprinkle some almonds or other nuts on top. Stay away from apple pies and other desserts that have too much sugar and fat.
Healthy Apple Recipes
Daily Nutrition Tip
Comments
I am sorry, but as an Australian, your column has just personified why Americans get laughed at and are having an obesity crisis. This is a nutrition article and yes, you are suggesting that the best way of eating an apple whole, but next you suggest adding caramel sauce and nuts! Destroy something so simple and healthy by adding caramel sauce? Not even something natural like honey,(which is still not something I have ever thought of adding to a raw apple) but a cream and butter and sugar concocted sauce. Only in America as the saying goes!
Dear WallyDoc, I just returned from Melbourne last month and the fish and chips, pavlova (Aussie fruit serving?), lollies, dim sim, pastas, pastries, chocolates, and processed trash were being consumed with great fervor by most locals (and many, many, many appear to be obese.) Children in Australian schools (and their parents) are forced to follow stringent bag lunch requirements because Australia also has a severe obesity crisis. This forces the state run health system to play Nana/Hitler and take away the rights of parents to chose the items thier offspring are allowed to carry in those little brown bags. Sigh! Only in Australia.