Apple Nutrition And Healing Information. What Can Apple Do For You?Could Apple Nutrition Be Better For You Than Any Drug Which Claims To Have Similar Functions?....And The Answer Is...

Yes!

You May Never Have Thought About Food As Medicine, But It Is...Here Is Why.

An Apple A Day Will Keep The Doctor Away! Now You Can Learn Why!Apple Nutrition: Traditional Chinese Medicine Healing Properties!

Apple Nutrition. In Traditional Chinese Medicine Apple is a food with remarkable healing power.

Thermically (meaning it has a heating or cooling or neutral effect on the body's temperature): It is neutral. It neither warms nor cools the body.

Taste: Sweet

Healing Properties:

1. Reduces heat in the body, especially "summer heat".

2. Produces fluids in the body in general but specifically in the intestines where it moistens dryness and thus helps prevent constipation.

3. Moistens dryness in the lungs and cools lung heat...protects lungs from the damaging heat and drying nature of cigarette smoke.

4. Stimulates the appetite.

5. Benefits Digestion.

6. Protects the digestive tract from pathogens. Apples are Anti-bacterial and Anti-yeast such as Candida.

7. Benefits the Liver and Gallbladder. Cleanses the Liver and softens Gallbladder stones.

Acid/Alkaline Producing Effect On The Body: AlkalyzingModern Apple Nutrition Information

Apple Nutrition contains the following known modern nutritional substances in their natural plant source chemical base:

Apples are known to contain the following Natural plant based Vitamins: A, Thiamine (Vit. B1), Riboflavin (Vit. B2), Niacin (Vit. B3), Pantothenic acid (B5), Vitamin B6, Folate (Vit. B9), and Vitamin C.

Apples also contain the following very important plant source minerals: Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, and Zinc.

List Of Health Conditions That Modern Science Has Documented Benefit From The Powerful Nutrition of Apples!

Cholesterol: Lowers Cholesterol...a cholesterol lowering food.

Protects the lungs from the damage of cigarette smoking.

Constipation: loosens stools, its mild laxative effect and dietary fiber provides for regular bowel movements. It may cause diarrhea in some sensitive individuals.

Detoxes the body: helps the body eliminate lead and mercury and the effects of radiation.

Increases Low blood sugar and the emotional depression associated with it. Eating apples makes you feel good, and boosts your mood.

Mood elevating: Eating apples makes you feel good, boosts your mood.

Pink Eye: Place a poultice of mashed apple over the eyes.

Sun Burn of the eyes: Place a poultice over the eyes.

Apple Nutrition Juicing Considerations:

If you are making a Fruit Smoothie in a blender with apple you will obtain best results by peeling the apple and coring it to remove the seeds, cut into 4 quarters and put in blender with the rest of the fruit.

If you are juicing it you should still core the apple...And wash the skin to get rid of pesticides and other chemicals that may be on the skin...

Selection Criteria And Use Information:

Beyond Apple nutrition to the fundamentals of selection, use and storage.

Select apples that are firm and not shriveled. If you are choosing an apple with a red skin...make sure it is ripe by not being green.

If you are choosing an Apple type that is naturally green then again...it must not be too green, meaning unripe, or it will not taste good.

You can store apples in the fruit crisper bin of your refrigerator and they tend to keep for quite a long time...However like most other fruits and vegetable your health will benefit the most from eating them when the are as close to being harvested as possible.

Cautions!

Apples may induce diarrhea in children and in some susceptible adults.

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