If you want to know what diet helps delay vascular obstruction and prevent cardiovascular diseases, we would suggest you eat an apple each day. As mentioned in the Chinese Dietary Reference Intakes Quick Reference Guide, the recommended daily fruit consumption ranges from 200g to 350g, which means an apple a day would be helpful for cardiovascular health.

        Apple can not only increase satiety, but prevent diseases. For example, folic acid in apple helps prevent heart disease. If you think an apple is too big for you, you can chop it into pieces to eat, which is suitable to the middle-aged and elderly. Also, apple peel has high antioxidant activity that makes it capable of preventing cardiovascular diseases as well.

         Many people are found to experience high cholesterol in their physical examination. But pectin and fibers in apple can reduce harmfully high levels of cholesterol and increase it to healthy levels to delay vascular obstruction. Long-term smokers and those long exposed to polluted environment can also avoid respiratory diseases by eating apples. And the crude fibre in apple is helpful to prevent colon cancer as well.

          A balanced diet is important. The 200g to 350g daily fruit consumption as mentioned in the Guide is enough for a healthy person. If you often consume other fruits, you don’t have to force yourself fo eat apple. And we would like to kindly remind you of the limit to fruit consumption, as overconsumption of sugar-rich fruits would lead to obesity. So, one apple a day is generally more suitable for most people.