- Nearly a hundred and fifty years later, a medical journal has used the excuse of Apr Fool's Day to publish a study that asks - seriously - whether or not this knowledge extremely will keep
- the doctor away.
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- The study tells us that the "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" this theory was stated in 1913 but was based on the original form with a different
- rhyme, some 149 years past in Wales: "Eat associate apple on progressing to bed and you will keep the doctor from earning his bread," went the proverb in Pembrokeshire.
- The University of Michigan School of Nursing researchers in Ann Arbor believe giving such medical proverbs an empirical evaluation "may allow us to profit from the wisdom of our predecessors."
- For the study's measure of keeping the doctor away, Matthew Davis, PhD, and co-authors evaluated an outcome of no more than one visit a year to the doctor as a means of investigating the proverb's success in daily apple eaters compared with non-apple eaters.
- So did a daily apple achieve keeping the doctor away?
- No, it did not.
- There was no statistically important distinction in visits to the doctor for daily apple eaters within the analysis.
- But the study did realize that associate apple every day
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