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
“Our ancestors, always hurried,” she writes in “Angel in the Forest,” “left little evidence of their existence, if one discounts intangibles, a sundial, an apple a day, an angel in the forest.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 10, 2024
She was obsessed with the taste, appreciated the nutrition and certainly believed in the phrase, "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."
From Salon • Oct. 5, 2021
Researchers did find that apple eaters were a bit less likely to require prescription medications compared to non-apple-eaters, leading the researcher to joke that “an apple a day keeps the pharmacist away.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 11, 2019
Remember that "An apple a day will keep the doctor away."
From Every Step in Canning by Gray, Grace Viall
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