Association between apple consumption and physician visits: appealing the conventional wisdom that an apple a day keeps the doctor away.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Fruit consumption is believed to have beneficial health effects, and some claim, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

Objective

To examine the relationship between eating an apple a day and keeping the doctor away.

Design, setting, and participants

A cross-sectional study of a nationally representative sample of the noninstitutionalized US adult population. A total of 8728 adults 18 years and older from the 2007-2008 and 2009-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey completed a 24-hour dietary recall questionnaire and reported that the quantity of food they ate was reflective of their usual daily diet.

Exposures

Daily apple eaters (consuming the equivalent of at least 1 small apple daily, or 149 g of raw apple) vs non-apple eaters, ba

SUBMITTER: Davis MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4420713 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature