I used to eat an apple every day, even before I knew that my arteries were beseiged by cholesterol and required extra help. Alas, such daily apple crunching precautions did not, as the proverb promised, keep the doctor away. In fact, at the height of my bypass crisis, the number of doctors I saw daily trumped the number of apples I was eating by a factor of three to one. Personally, I believe that new-fangled farming techniques are to blame; modern pesticides seeping through the apple's skin, into its very core, polluting all its medicinal properties with a chemical form of saturated-fat, undetectable by nutrition experts, the Food and Drug Adminsistration, and the sort of misguided old wives who fabricate quaint tales about apples keeping doctors away.
At any rate, I am still eating apples, mostly of the organic Gala variety, but I don't bother to eat one every single day. You might just as well maintain a strict mango eating regimen, as far as I'm concerned, if you think it will reduce your visits to the local health clinic. Currently, I am swallowing a Simvastatin a day, which, although it does not keep the doctor away either, does happen to be recommended by him to actually lower cholesterol levels. I also don't need to worry about fruit flies and other undesirables congregating around the Simvastatin's rotten core when I can't find a garbage can nearby (another huge benefit it can claim versus the simple apple).
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