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Apple a day may keep more than the doctor away

VIENNA, Va. – The disease-fighting profile of apples got a boost last week as industry experts and scientists converged for the Fourth Annual Interpoma Conference, the International tradeshow for apple growing, storage, marketing and processing, that was held in Bolzano, Italy. The health benefits of apples have been on record since ancient times. The medieval physician's "bible," the Salerno Medical School's Prescription for Health, documented in 1100 A.D. the therapeutic properties of apples for ailments associated with the bowels, lungs and nervous system. More than 700 years later, in 1904, American fruit specialist J.T. Stinson coined the phrase "an apple a day keeps the doctor away", a modern variation on an Old English phrase.

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