Have you ever noticed that every month seems to bring a trendy new diet and yet obesity

rates continue to rise and with it a growing number of health problems?

That's why I wrote my new book How Not To Diet.

Check it out at your local public library.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Today we examine the merits of an almost biblical fruit, the apple.

In our first story we ask which would save more lives, a prescription to eat an apple

a day or statin drugs?

Doesn't apple a day really keep the doctor away?

That's a public health message.

It's been around since 1866, but is it true?

You don't know, I tell you.

Put it to the test, the association between apple consumption and physician visits, published

in the AMA's internal medicine journal.

Objective?

To examine the relationship between eating an apple a day and keeping the doctor away.

Promoted by the lame median powerful special interest groups including the US Apple Association,

so powerful that big apple recently spent a whopping $7,000 lobbying positions.

The beneficial effects of apple consumption may include a facilitation of weight loss,

protection of the brain, cancer suppression, reduction in asthma symptoms, improved cardiovascular

health.

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