It's a phrase we used to hear from our parents, in a desperate attempt for us to eat our fruit: "an apple a day keeps the doctor away".
Now, researchers from Oxford University claim that if you are over the age of 50, eating an apple a day really does keep the doctor away.
According to the research, apples can give the same benefits as statins, the drugs commonly given to reduce cholesterol levels.
"If everyone over the age of fifty were to eat an extra apple a day, then it would reduce the number of deaths from heart attacks and strokes from about eight and a half thousand," says Dr Adam Briggs from the University of Oxford.
Despite these findings and recommendations for healthy eating, people are still not eating the suggested daily intake; five servings of fruit and vegetables a day.
In fact, 10 per cent of us don’t eat any fruit or vegetables at all.
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