An Apple a Day
Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
BBC
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Michael delves into the surprising research on the humble apple, revealing how it can help your heart, gut, and brain. He speaks to Dr Catherine Bondonno from Edith Cowan University in Australia to find out how and why simply eating more apples could reduce risk of dying early by up to 35%! They discuss what apples can do to our gut bacteria and blood vessels to keep them healthy. Meanwhile, our volunteer Lee overcomes sensory challenges, finding different ways of adding apples to his diet.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers. |
| 0:06.0 | But you sit down and be bright. |
| 0:08.0 | Celebrating women's voices. |
| 0:10.0 | You're very welcome to now you're asking with me, Marion Keys Keys and me Tara Flynn. |
| 0:14.8 | This is juicy. No limits, no limits. |
| 0:17.2 | Celebrating women. |
| 0:18.8 | Where to be a woman is the podcast celebrating the best of women's well-being. We're on a quest to find out |
| 0:24.4 | where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself. |
| 0:28.8 | Lesson on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:33.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:37.0 | We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're bombarded with often conflicting advice. |
| 0:48.0 | So if you were going to do just one thing to improve your mental and physical well-being. What should it be? |
| 0:55.2 | Maybe some beetroot to boost your workout, meditation to improve your immune system. |
| 1:02.0 | Or how about a bit of dancing to big up your brain power. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode we'll explore |
| 1:11.8 | one thing you can start doing today |
| 1:14.4 | to improve your health or life in ways you might not expect. |
| 1:18.8 | It's early afternoon and I'm a bit peshish so I'm about to grab a delicious snack that could |
| 1:27.9 | improve my blood flow, boost my brain and trim my waistline. |
| 1:31.5 | It's not. and trim my waistline. This is not some exotic soup of food. |
| 1:38.0 | In fact, it's an apple. |
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