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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
一天一蘋果醫生遠離我。
Especially the cardiologist, as it turns out.
老話講的沒錯，特別是研究表明能夠遠離心臟病醫生。
Because an apple a day might save as many lives as cholesterol-lowering statins are thought to.
因為一天一蘋果可能起到降低膽固醇的藥物斯達汀作用從而挽救更多生命。
So says a study in the British Medical Journal.
這是根據《英國醫學雜志》上發表的一項研究得出的結論。
Using mathematical models, researchers added an apple to the diet of every Brit over the age of 50—a total of 22 million adults—while keeping calorie intake constant.
研究人員們使用數學模型對2.2億成年人中每位超過50歲英國公民的食譜中增加了一個蘋果—并使他們每日攝取一定的熱量。
The idea being that calories from a vitamin and fiber-packed apple might displace those from less salubrious snacks.
每天一蘋果的目的是使人們從富含維生素和纖維的蘋果中攝取微量元素，從而代替從不健康的小點心中攝取的同類物質。
And they found that upping the apple input could stave off some 8,500 deaths by heart attack or stroke each year—compared with an estimated 9,400 deaths averted by statins in England.
之后他們就發現，相比英格蘭地區因服用斯達汀藥物每年減少死亡的9400人，增加蘋果的食譜每年可以減少8500人因心臟病或者中風導致的死亡。
The comparison is not apples-and-oranges.
對比的可不是蘋果和桔子。
Because some doctors have indeed proposed giving statins to everyone over 50 as a preventive measure.
因為一些醫生確實推薦所有年齡超過50歲的人為了降低心血管疾病服用斯達汀。
But a small change in diet might do as much good, if people comply.
但是如果人們愿意的話，膳食中的一點改變就可以帶來事半功倍的效果。
And unlike statins, which can up the risk of diabetes, apples have few side effects:
而且不像斯達汀會增加人們罹患糖尿病的危險，蘋果給人們帶來的極少數副作用:
the researchers cite the distress caused by a bruised apple; or the theoretical risk of identifying half a worm inside.
這些副作用包括研究人員們舉例壓壞蘋果帶來的不適；或者 看到吃了一半的蘋果中殘留的半只蟲子從而造成的理論上可能的風險。
So how do you like them apples?
因此你們怎么如何看待蘋果？
