Benefits of Apples

Besides delicious apples for consumption, it also has many benefits for health. One of the benefits of apples is as an antioxidant and also to help the diet. The scientists encourage us to eat more apples snack. Because the fruit of this one is the best medicine for muscle atrophy. Muscle atrophy involve a number of serious problems, but no drugs have been found to cure it.

Researchers from the University of Iowa has begun to study the activity of genes associated with muscle to find substances that could interfere with the disease. They have identified an important component in apple skin.

This substance is ursolic acid. Experiments on mice have shown that eating apples give rise to 15 percent of muscle mass. However, the total weight of rats fed with this acid remains the same, while the amount of fat is reduced more than half. According to research published in the journal Cell Metabolism, which quoted from Genius Beauty, Tuesday (21/06/2011).  
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The scientists believe that the role of ursolic acid consists in programming the genes responsible for the loss of muscle mass and replacement with fat.

As for apples, they also can lower blood sugar levels, levels of fatty acids and cholesterol. Not only that, according to scientists, this fruit is to help people with diabetes because of its nature. 

contain a flavonoid called quercetin can protect the lungs from cigarette smoke. Research in Beijing proved a number of families who regularly get their food quercetin in 20% less cancer.apples contain pectin which blocks absorption of fat naturally reduces cravings. Eating three apples a day can reduce the weight of three pounds a week. n apple contains antioxidants and 1500 mg of vitamin C that causes ranging from wrinkle-free radicals and heart disease and the ageless.