BBC News Health has this hopefully great news for kids.

Children who drank apple juice at least once a day were half as likely to suffer from wheezing as those drinking it less than once a month, it found.

Emphasis falls on apple juice and not on eating fresh apples since the studies showed that it was apple juice that helped to curb the wheezing symptoms.

…it was possible that ‘phytochemicals’ in apples, such as flavanoids and phenolic acids, were helping to calm the inflammation in the airways which is a key feature of both wheezing and asthma.

I used to have asthma as a kid and I know the burden of having to deal with asthma. And I was a pretty active kid back then. Too bad my asthma was also activity-induced. Imagine having to play soccer (okay, football for the rest of the world) and having a Salbutamol inhaler with you on the bench.

In any case, this is another reason to focus on living healthy. So, maybe the age old adage is true, “An apple a day…”