Smoothie Drinks

August 4, 2011

Why do Apple Smoothie Drinks Help you Fight Cancer?

Smoothie DrinksYou enjoy your smoothie just as much as the next person. What is not to love? It’s fruity, and it is smooth. If you never thought of the possibility, certain smoothie drinks can be a great way to keep cancer at bay. Apple smoothies, particularly, have antioxidants known as polyphenols that truly protect you against colon cancer. You are probably thinking that you drink great deal of apple juice, and that should be good enough. However, it is not as simple as that. There have been studies into the subject, and they have discovered that the way the goodness of apple blended in a smoothie, helps the polyphenols get all the way to your colon far better than apple juice or apple cider ever could.

So how exactly did the researchers determine that apple smoothie drinks could deliver the good stuff to your colon far better than apple juice? What they did was, they took little pouches called ileostomy bags and attached them to their subjects’ small intestines. They were trying to collect the smoothie when it reached the intestines, so that they could test it to check how much polyphenols, it contained once it got that far. They got samples of the smoothie drinks, apple drinks and apple cider drinks this way. And they easily found out that smoothies surely keep their goodness intact for far longer into the digestive process. If you love your smoothies, this is certainly going to be fun news. One does a wonder is how on earth, the researchers even thought of such a test though.

So how precisely do these magic chemicals, these polyphenols in apples, help you against colon cancer? The cells that get out of control in colon cancer require certain enzymes, certain proteins to thrive and wreak their destruction. Polyphenols make it impossible for those cells to get those proteins and enzymes. The polyphenols you find in apples will as well help you protect yourself against heart disease, breast cancer, lung cancer and a variety of other modern afflictions. It Is not just apples that have them either. You will find polyphenols in cocoa , tea and blueberries.

So how should you make your apple smoothie drinks?

You can chop up a couple of organic apples, throw in your low-fat yogurt and almond milk in the blender, and let it go. Leave the peels on for the best polyphenol boost. No one said that you had to skimp on the taste. You can use all the sugar and ice that you want. Either way, you will find that you have less sugar in your drink than you would if you got store-bought apple juice. Now if only all healthy foods were this delicious smoothie drinks. :smile:

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