An Apple a Day for 10 years could add 3.5 stone weight

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, so the rhyme goes. But it could make you put on 3.5 stone over 10 years!

I worked out the maths today:-

• A small 100g eating apple has 47 calories.
• One pound of body weight is equivalent to 3500 calories.
  
• So if you eat 74 apples (3500/47) you could add a pound weight.
  
• An apple a day for a year could add 4.9 pounds (365/74) weight.
  
• In 10 years thats 49 pounds or 3st 7 pounds!

Twenty years ago I was 9st 13 pounds. In August 2006 I was 13st 7 pounds. So since 1986 I've eaten the equivalent of an apple every OTHER day - too much!

Isn't it amazing that everyone is not overweight!!