Apple a day really does keep the doc away

AN apple a day really might help to keep the doctor away, according to new research highlighting the fruit’s “incredible” health benefits.

Scientists were surprised by the response of a group of post-menopausal women who ate 75 grams of dried apples a day for a year.

Within six months their levels of harmful low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol had dropped by almost a quarter.