So it is official, an apple a day really can keep the doctors away – good job given that I will have consumed 76 of them during my juicy detox! I got quite an “interesting” reaction in the supermarket when buying the fruit and veg for the last 4 days of the detox. The lady serving me asked which restaurant or hotel I worked in and when I explained that I would be consuming it all myself in just 4 days I think she nearly had a heart attack! When joked with her about an apple a day, she said I was buying more apples than she eats in year. Anyway…
A recent Dutch study followed 20,000 healthy Dutch people aged between 20 and 69 for ten years to investigate a possible link between health and the colour of fruit and vegetables. The researchers looked at the number of strokes – fatal or otherwise – after ten years. Then they look to see whether there was a link between the strokes and the colour of the fruit and vegetables eaten. They distinguished four categories: green (spinach), orange (oranges), red/purple (grapes) and white (apples). The colours reflect the presence of different compounds in the various fruit and vegetables.
The only relationship found was for white fruit and vegetables. Every additional 25 grams of white fruit and vegetables eaten – mainly apples and pears – reduces the risk of a stroke by 9 percent.
I wonder if drinking cider has the same effect as eating the apples?
For everyday juicing I use the Phillips HR1861 Juicer
