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The polyphenols and fiber in just two apples a day can lower cholesterol and normalize other lipids and vascular function.  This conclusion comes from a British and Italian Study just published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

 

Study participants were 40 overweight men and women with mildly elevated cholesterol who consumed 2 Renetta apples a day for 8 weeks.  The apple supplement significantly lowered total cholesterol, LDL “bad” cholesterol, and triglycerides.  Beneficial vascular relaxation was better after downing the apples.

 

The Italian-grown Renetta apples are particularly rich in the very bioactive polyphenol proanthrocyanidins.  The researchers don’t know if these polyphenols or fiber do the trick.  Either way, don’t pass up apples.

 

Athanasios Koutsos et al. Two apples a day lower serum cholesterol and improve cardiometabolic biomarkers in mildly hypercholesterolemic adults: a randomized, controlled, crossover trial, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2019). DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/nqz282

 

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