apple a day
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This simple at-home treatment is as commonplace as an apple a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 25, 2025
But whoever said an apple a day keeps the doctor away was lying.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2024
If one apple a day is not enough to make us healthy, what about eating two or three?
From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2023
An apple a day keeps the doctor away : This well-known statement is based on an 1860s Welsh proverb that eating apples will diminish doctor visits.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2019
"An apple a day keeps the doctor away," quotes a weekly paper.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919. by Various
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