Stay healthy with apples, but how to get there?

Today I will focus on the question, on how to implement the eating habit to ingest at least one fresh apple a day! So, if you do this already - Congratulations! You can stop to read here, the others (like me) may continue...

First, find hereafter four good reasons, why apples are a healthy fruit:

1. Promoting a healthy digestion:

Apples are rich in fiber pectin, which lowers not only cholesterol but also body fats. Apples promote a healthy digestion and help with some digestive concerns. For example, if you have a diarrhea: have apple slices that got brown; if you have a constipation: have fresh apple slices.

2. Supporting the immune system:

Apples are full of antioxidants, which support our immune system, heart and brain. 

3. Cleaning the body:

Apples and their juice are a perfect detoxication and body cleaning food, which is beneficial for the liver. The cleaning of the intestinal tract with fiber is also very helpful if you want to maintain a healthy weight or to loose extra pounds. 

4. Giving the right energy boost: 

Apples are a perfect healthy snack and a natural energy booster. Apples are not high in energy (100g apple/50-70 kcal).

How to learn the good eating habit 

to eat one apple a day!

Check this small roadmap on how to get there:
1. Clarify your goal:

• To eat at least one apple a day!

2. Find your motivation:

• To get a healthy digestion,
• To feel light,
• To loose some pounds, because you can reduce other snacks or unhealthy food, because apples are not high in energy.

3. Imagine positively:

• How great it is, to eat an apple (the taste, the fresh pulp etc.) 

4. Become organised: 

• Go to the supermarket or your farmer market and buy the best and freshest apples you can find, prefer organic fruits,
• Wash and put them prominently in a nice basket in your kitchen,
• Define an hour in your day, when you would like to eat your apple (breakfast, snack, evening),
• Take your apple with you for any occasion,
• If you have a craving, eat your apple,
• Replace an unhealthy snack with your apple.  

5. Think about a ritual:

• It is important that you find your ritual to eat your daily apple a day! Sit down, think and don't hesitate to write it down!

It is going to take some time to get practice. So, don't give up too quickly! I hope, you are not allergic against apples (often if you show a birch pollen allergy), but then you can use the roadmap for any other fruit or vegetable.