Folk Wisdom and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Folk Wisdom

Eating fruits and vegetables on a daily basis has always been an important aspect of good nutrition and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. But amongst the various foods in these categories, the apple stood primus inter-pares and there is even the adage that states "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." This folk wisdom can well be proven by undergoing a scientific experimentation whereby several subjects will be tested to determine how healthier they can get by eating an apple or two a day. The subjects can be divided between a control group (no apple for x number or days) and the experimental group that will be given two apples a day during the testing period. Thereafter, each subject in the experiment will be given various medical test such as blood, cholesterol, and other tests that determine their level of health. However, undergoing this kind of scientific experimentation to prove the folk wisdom will take a lot of time and resources. Thus, in the...

For instance in an USDA-funded experiment done last year, "the study randomly assigned 160 women ages 45-65 to one of two dietary intervention groups: one received dried apples daily (75g/day for 1 year) and the other group ate dried prunes every day for a year (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2011)." The result of the study proved the viability of eating apple on a daily basis and this promoted the reduction of bad cholesterol in the body. Further, the study showed that there was an "increase in HDL cholesterol or good cholesterol by about 4% (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, 2011)" proving further that this folk wisdom is true indeed.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

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