Yuma Mayor Al Krieger would like all city employees to have an apple a day. Given the facts about apples, that's good policy.
A medium-sized apple has only 95 calories and is loaded with restorative phytonutrients. A recent European study found that people eating more than one apple a day cut their risk of colon cancer in half.
Not only that, an apple can teach us how to better understand our hunger cues.
Most of us have had the experience of digging into a high-calorie snack, even though we weren't hungry. The high-fat, high-salt and high-sugar stuff goes down easy. Since junk food bypasses our satiety cues, we keep on eating — whether we are hungry or not.
Unlike junk food, an apple triggers natural hunger awareness:
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