Body & Health.

The apple reduces a level of cholesterol in blood. The secret of apples is hidden in pectin and fibers. One apple of the average size with a peel contains 3,5 grams of fibres and more than 10 % of daily norm of the fibers necessary for an organism. The apple without a peel contains 2,7 grams of fibres. Insoluble molecules of fibres are attached to cholesterol and promote its withdrawal from organism what is reducing risk of corking of vessels, occurrence of heart attacks. Apples also contain soluble fibres named by pectin, which help to connect and deduce surplus of the cholesterol formed in liver.
Researchers have found out, that having eaten 2 apples a day, you will reduce the level of cholesterol on 16 %, and consumption of apples, alongside with a small or average onion and 4 cups of green tea, reduces risk of occurrence of heart attack on 32 %.
The peel of apple contains a lot of antioxidants, which together with vitamin C, prevents formation of free radicals, which have harmful influence on the organism. Owing to pectin the apple also gets a part of the protective force. Researchers believe that pectin is capable to connect harmful substances in the organism, such as lead and arsenic, and to deduce them from organism. Insoluble fibres in apples deduce harmful substances from an organism, reducing probability of thick gut cancer development.
The apple promotes digestion normalization. Fibres as it has been mentioned above prevent constipation. Pectin treats a diarrhea. Traditionally apples are considered as good natural means against diarrhea.
Besides apples strengthen immune system and help to support a constant level of sugar in blood. It is better to eat apples in crude kind, but also after small thermal processing they keep the majority of the nutrients. The majority of apples are covered from above by wax, therefore “scratch” them before the use to remove from a peel wax. Try to not cut off a peel as it contains a lot of pectin and vitamins.