Apples! Healthy As Advertised?
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
An apple can be ideal snack when you're trying to lose weight, but its health benefits go way beyond keeping a slim waist. In fact, apples are packed with tons of nutrients that can help improve your health and keep the doctor away.
In this episode, "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll sits down with dietitian Susan Levin to discover everything that makes up an apple and how each of those vitamins and minerals can affect your health. We're talking about everything from fiber to calcium to amino acids to vitamins A-K and the THREE forms of sugar found in apples!
But what about that sugar? Doesn't an apple have the same amount as a candy bar? Yes, but keep in mind comparing the two is like comparing … well, apples and candy bars. The way your body processes the natural sugar found in fruit and the refined sugar found in many candies is night and day.
Fun fact: Apples contain the amino acid tryptophan which is commonly blamed for causing drowsiness after Thanksgiving dinner.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there. |
| 0:10.6 | This is the Exam Room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:14.0 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:16.3 | Thanks for giving us a download. |
| 0:18.1 | A listen this week greatly appreciated. |
| 0:21.3 | You know, last week's show was super successful. |
| 0:24.4 | It was all about nuts. |
| 0:26.6 | Really healthy. |
| 0:27.6 | That was the name of the episode. |
| 0:30.3 | So this week's seeing as though there was so much interest in that type of show, we're |
| 0:35.0 | going to go ape over apples. |
| 0:38.8 | Apal for apples. |
| 0:40.8 | Apples. |
| 0:41.8 | What's in them? |
| 0:42.8 | Are they really as healthy as the proverb would lead us to believe? |
| 0:47.9 | We're going to go through apples. |
| 0:49.2 | Go through them A to Z with registered dietitian Susan Levin from the Barnard Medical Center. |
| 0:55.0 | We're talking about a serious, a serious now nutritional analysis here. |
| 1:00.5 | We're diving into micronutrients and we're going to keep on diving. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going to go as far as we possibly can. |
| 1:08.6 | Anything that you ever wanted to know about an apple, you are about to find out. |
| 1:14.9 | For example, sugar. |
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