It is a food that helps strengthen the digestive system, stimulate neurons and even keep your figure.

On Wednesday, doctor Jimmy Mohamed deciphers in the morning all the benefits of a fruit known to all: the apple.

The doctor from Europe 1 explains to you why you have to eat apples every day. 

The apple has almost magical virtues.

Eating it regularly would take care of your digestive system, develop your neurons and all that while keeping the figure!

Doctor Jimmy Mohamed explains to you, Wednesday, all the properties of this daily food in his column

Our Health

in the morning of Europe 1. 

A concentrate of good sugar and vitamins

It's a slogan that we know by heart: to stay healthy, you must "eat five fruits and vegetables a day".

And especially apples.

This fruit, very low in calories, contains good sugar, very different from that which can be found in industrial cakes.

It also has a low glycemic index: when you eat an apple, the sugar level rises, but not suddenly.

Apple also contains vitamin C and fiber.

These are found in the pectin on the skin of the apple.

Pectin helps nourish the bacteria in the digestive tract, also called the microbiota, by reconstituting a form of gel in the intestine.

We should therefore eat organic apples, preferably. 

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Apples can boost our brains

Even more surprising: eating apples makes neurons grow.

Researchers have long believed that it is only possible to create connections between neurons.

But, in certain areas of the brain, especially in the hippocampus, it is possible to create new cells.

And in apples, there are nutrients that stimulate cells to multiply.

Which is absolutely amazing.

Eat apples to keep your figure

On a daily basis, we tend to eat our meals rather very quickly.

We gulp, we swallow, we chew very little, because we are in a hurry or stressed.

Problem: it takes 15 to 20 minutes before triggering the satiety phenomenon.

So, ending your meal with an apple allows you to chew, to chew.

This will take time and trigger the satiety process.

But be careful, it does not work with the juice, you have to eat real apples.