A 1997 STUDY in the American Journal of Epidemiology carried out by researchers from Finland's National Public Health Institute (Helsinki) discovered that the flavonoids from apples play a role in decreasing the risk of lung cancer.
According to the research team, quercetin, a flavonoid found in high concentration in apples, provided 95 percent of the total flavonoid intake in the population studied, which consisted of 9,959 men and women.
Among the apple-eaters in the study. the likelihood of developing lung cancer fell by 58 percent compared to those who ate a tiny-to-nil amount.
Other notable sources of flavonoids in the diets of those studied included: onions, fruits, vegetables, and two not recorded: tea and red wine.
[Source: "Dietary Flavonoids and the Risk of Lung Cancer and Other Malignant Neoplasms," American Journal of Epidemiology 146(3):223230.]
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