King of Fruits

If I asked you to describe apples in just one word, you might probably say ‘juicy’, ‘munchy’ or ‘delicious’.  I bet ‘healthy’may not find its way into your long list. But as attractive and delicious as apples are, nothing beats their highly beneficial characteristics.

 Now, why should the apple be known as the "King" of all fruits? The answer is because this fruit has so many virtues. 

The saying that "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" has been proven to be true in more ways than one.  Its qualities are endless, helping to prevent and fight a wide range of diseases. Well, let’s consider those benefit

• Apples assist in achieving whiter, healthier teeth. Though it won’t   replace your toothbrush, biting  stimulates the production of saliva in your mouth, reducing tooth decay by lowering the levels of bacteria.
• Apples are filled with soluble fibre which helps to reduce intestinal disorders and haemorrhoids.
• Apples cleanse and detoxify the human system, which helps eliminate heavy metals such as lead and mercury in the body system. 
•  Apples are a good source of Pectin which helps to reduce cholesterol levels by lowering insulin secretion
• Risks of respiratory diseases such as Asthma can be lowered through increased and consistent consumption of apples.
• Apples strengthen the heart, quench thirst, lubricate the lungs, decreases mucous secretion and increases body fluids.
• Studies indicate that eating apples daily can help reduce skin diseases
• There’s no danger of adding unwanted weight since it contain no fat or sodium
• Apples are packed with vitamins C, A, and flavonoids and with smaller amounts of phosphorus, iron and calcium
• Apples provide a source of potassium which may promote heart health. Experts attribute the heart-healthy benefits to antioxidant compounds found in apples, which help prevent cholesterol from oxidizing and inhibiting inflammation

Asides the numerous health benefits of apples, here are five interesting fun facts I bet you didn’t know about apples

•   Apple trees take four to five years to produce their first fruit. 
•  Apples ripen six to 10 times faster at room temperature than if they are refrigerated. 
•  Apples are a member of the rose family 
•  If you threw an apple in water, it wouldn’t sink – apples float in water! This is because 25% of their volume consists of air. 
•   Isaac Newton is said to have discovered the Law of Gravity when an apple fell on his head!

In conclusion, if there is any one thing that you can do to stay well, then it is to eat at least two apples daily according to a whole raft of new scientific researches which place apples at the top of the healthy-living tree. In essence, better health could be as easy as reaching for the fruit bowl for some apples next time you need a snack!

http://www.shape.com/weight-loss/food-weight-loss/8-health-benefits-apples

http://www.mnn.com/food/healthy-eating/stories/10-reasons-to-eat-an-apple-a-day

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The Many wonders of the Nose

Most people believe that the primary job of the nose is to smell and breathe. If you belong to that camp, well you are right. Still, there are lots of other things you probably do not know about the human nose. If you want to learn a few truly amazing and interesting facts about the human nose, then just keep reading...
Though we do not pay proper attention to our noses except when they are runny or when a celebrity has just had a ‘nose-job’, the human nose still remains one of the body organs that maintain our health and helps ensure that we live good quality lives.


Here are some facts about the human nose that will help you understand more about how it works tirelessly for us.

• The human nose uses millions of cells to detect approximately 10,000 odors  far less than many animals, but very important in maintaining a good quality life.

• The human nose helps prevent air-borne infections.

• The human nose helps affect the resonance of your voice.

• After age 65, a human loses some of their ability to smell. By the time we reach our eighties, our sense of smell can decrease by as much as 50%.

• Although people are known to break their noses on occasion, there are no bones in them. What gets broken is a piece of cartilage.

• Any air we breathe in through our noses is cooled or warmed to body temperature before it hits our lungs.

• Anosmia is when we do not have the ability to smell, dyosmia is an incorrect sense of smell and hyperosmia is when someone is overloaded by their sense of smell.

• The human brain dedicates less of its brain to smelling than other animals, including fish.


Finally, I’ll like to tell you about a patient who once had asked to a doctor about what he needed to do to take good care of his nose. The doctor simply and straightforwardly replied to the patient that what was more important was what not to do to your nose. Bad habits such as nose-picking, sniffing, rubbing, blowing the noses hard or stuffing things such as tissue and handkerchiefs up to the nostril can do a lot of harm to your nose.
Now that you have increased your knowledge about your nose, I hope you will be kind enough to share the information with a friend. Will you?


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http://whatthafact.com/interesting-facts-about-nose/
http://alexanderchong.articlealley.com/how-to-take-good-care-of-your-nose-120282.html

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