HOW MANY APPLES DO YOU EAT?

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23514, 31 May 1938, Page 18

HOW MANY APPLES DO YOU EAT?

We’ve all heard the old saying, “ An apple a day keeps the doctor away” (which seems hard luck for the doctor —but what would you?)—but few people realise exactly how important a part this fruit can play in helping us to good health, and even to beauty. In this important matter, there is little doubt that, for women as for men. the highroad to health, a clear skin, and a good figure, is a balanced diet, in which fruits and vegetables play a very important part. Health is life’s most precious possession, yet health is won or lost as we attend to, or neglect, some of the simplest things

in life. A successful woman recently gave her formula for success as follows; “Right thoughts, right diet, and right exercise.”

It is, unfortunately, true that many women, both young and old, do not yet realise the great value of fruits and vegetables in providing and maintaining natural health and beauty. Most dietetic and health authorities agree that purgatives are of little use for internal troubles or for slimming purposes, because they only aggravate the condition, and are regarded as beauty destroying. On the other hand, fruits, particularly apples, are valuable aids to health and . beauty.

The mineral matter in apples is one of nature’s wonders; and the apple provides the right dose of iron needed by the blood to keep its red colour. Apples contain other valuable elements, including lime, potash, and phosphorus. In cases where there is any tendency to obesity, or where women desire a slimming programme, there is no better fruit food than the apple. Apples clean the system, and keep the skin clear; their adds drive out the noxious matter which causes skin eruptions. They are also good for the brain, which those same noxious matters, if retailed, (fender sluggish. In addition, the acids of the apple diminish the acidity of the stomach that comes with some forms of indigestion. If. and when, you cook apples, remember not to add much sugar to the cooked fruit, because it interferes with the natural flavour and healthfulness of the apples. The ancients were not wrong when they esteemed the apples the food of the’ gods—the magic renewer of youth. Therefore, in the interests of health and beauty, eat an apple after every meal, and particularly last thing at night, as the apple is ‘ Nature s toothbrush.”