The Health benefits of Apple

We all know that eating apple has got tremendous health benefits. The phrase “An apple a day keeps the doctor away” is also well known to all of us. But not many of us know why people say that if you eat an apple a day you need not to visit your doctor. The reason is the enormous health benefits apple has. Many recent studies on apple for its nutritive and health values indicate that regular eating of apple can reduce the risks of cardiovascular diseases, reduce the risk of dreaded disease cancer, and help in controlling body weight to normal, especially in the individuals who tend to put on weight easily, to name a few health benefits of apple. The reduced risk of cancer is due to the presence of high amount of antioxidants apple contains, which help to fight cancer.

In these days of high prevalence of obesity and overweight, regular eating of apple (and also other fruits) can help in controlling body weight can work wonder. What can be better way to control body weight to normal that eating delicious fruit like apple regularly.

The covering (skin) of apple is rich in antioxidant known as quercetin, although the flesh is the most delicious part of apple. Antioxidants are the molecules which prevent the free radicals (oxygen radicals and many others) from damaging the cells in our body. By preventing the individual cell damage, quercetin can help in preventing cancer. Quercetin not only is able to prevent cancer, but it can growth of tumors and also delays the spread of cancer if it occurs.

Apple is also a rich source of fibers, especially insoluble fibers, which can prevent constipation (a very common problem especially in Western countries). Insoluble fiber also helps in preventing colon cancer and helps in smooth running of digestive tract. By filling the stomach without the calories, fibers act as appetite suppressant.

In a recent study in Finland it was demonstrated that regular eating of apple with high quercetin (present mainly in the skin of apple) can reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases by approximately 20%.

 

Nice Blog to Visit

Sometimes I search and surf the net in my free time. While surfing the net I came across a nice blog which I liked, although the blog is not of the domain I usually do blogging. But I thought I should share it with readers of my blog. This may seem to be out of the topic, but sometimes it is good to take path which is off the normal track. I sometime take the path which is traveled less and sometimes I come across something which I never expected to find and to my liking. The blog I am talking about is also something like that and I could not stop from writing about the blog in this blog (which is of health niche). Some of the readers of this blog may not like this article as it is away from normal niche and little different (not exactly little different, but very much different) from normal articles found in this blog.

So, if you get interested, to take the track (path) less taken or traveled you can check it out. This is a nice blog to read, I must say and I also would like to say that I indeed enjoy reading the blog and I will visit the blog in the future to see what new and interesting things they have in store for readers like me. Sometimes when you get bored doing the routine thing in life you need to do something different and I think that is the reason of at least one holiday in a week (it may vary place to place).

By taking this type of off beaten track we can keep our mind sane and remain healthy (mentally healthy). Mental health is very important in these days of high competition and mechanical life, which is very much prone to develop mental health problems. The mechanical way of life is responsible for high number of individuals with psychiatry problem in the developed world, at least in compare to many developing nations.

So sometimes keep taking off beaten track to remain healthy, mentally.

Health Benefits of Walking

We all know walking and other physical activities and physical exercise, especially aerobic physical exercise is beneficial to us to live a healthy life. We also know the phrase “health is wealth”, but unfortunately not many of us (may be you are included) do not practice what we know in our practical life. Walking is such a physical activity which has enormous health benefit in our entire life. Walking is also such an activity (better to say aerobic physical exercise) which every able bodied person can do and maintain. For lifelong continuation walking is a very good exercise, which can be continued for life, including at old age unlike other exercises which may not be able to continue at old age as they are comparatively heavy and need dedication for continuation.

We all know the health benefits of walking and other aerobic physical activities. But some of the health benefits of walking are discussed here. The most important health benefit of walking is the benefit it can give to the heart and cardiovascular system. Regular walking can help in keeping the coronary arteries patent by not allowing the cholesterol to get deposited in the walls of coronary arteries. Walking if continued along with dietary modification is one of the best approaches a heart patient can take. Walking with dietary modification can also help a diabetic to control his/her blood sugar level and in many cases this combination is all that is required to control blood sugar. Dietary modification and walking can delay appearance of diabetes by several years and in the initial stage of diabetes dietary modification and exercise is all that may be required for maintaining normal blood sugar level.

Walking also helps to control hypertension or high blood pressure and walking is one of the best approaches a hypertensive person can take. By keeping blood pressure within normal limit it is possible to prevent cardiovascular diseases at bay. Hypertension is the main culprit in cardiovascular diseases which initiates the disease process.

Other than diabetes, hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases walking is also good for health in general (for maintenance of optimal health).

It is important to know how much walking is good for health. To get the maximum health benefits of walking it is advised by the medical experts that a person (normal individuals as well as for persons suffering form disease) should walk minimum of 30 minutes a day for at least 5 days a week which is150 minutes per week. If you can walk 7 days a week and for more than 30 minutes a day, it will be more beneficial.

So lets walk for good health.