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A. Marks & Spencer

Dear Sir: I have many items purchased at Marks & Spencer by my peripatetic businessman father, including some beautiful clothes and a fold-up umbrella. Ah, the umbrella! It has never broken, inverted, failed to open or been mislaid without being recognised as mine and returned to me. Having had it for about four years, I call that unusual life span a testimony to British ingenuity.

If Mrs. Thatcher ever decides to hand over the government to Marks & Spencer, I may emigrate and change my nationality. Or maybe we could import some M&S managers to run our government!

Barbara Pilvin, Philadelphia

Перевод:

Барбара Пилвин из Филадельфии в своем письме рассказывает о своем восхищении торговой фирмой Marks & Spencer, ссылаясь на пример купленного у них зонта, который вот уже много лет не ломается, не заворачивается при ветре, не заедает и не теряется, что свидетельствует, по ее мнению, о подлинно Британском качестве. Переходя на политические темы, Барбара уверяет, что M&S могли бы возглавить хоть британское, хоть американское правительство.

B. Dear Sir: I have recently been on a two-week holiday with your company to the island of Thassos.

I am sorry to say that it was the worst holiday I’ve ever had. Over the years I have been on many holidays to Greece, a country I have now come to know very well. I think I can safely say that, until this year, all of those holidays were wonderful. For example, I once spent six weeks on Crete, which I had not visited before. I loved that holiday so much that I have returned every spring for the last four years.

This year, however, was different. I honestly consider this to have been the worst holiday of my life. This is not the fault of Thassos: the fault lies entirely with your company whose inability to organize the simplest thing is quite unbelievable.

As both the outward and return flights were delayed for several hours, there was nobody to meet us at the airport or transfer us to our hotel, and when we eventually did reach the hotel, we discovered it had been built over a mile from the beach. Reading your brochure carefully, we feel this was not what we expected.

Jane Brown, North Carolina

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Apple juice “protects the heart”

A very moderate intake of apple juice has the potential to reduce risk factors for heart disease in a fairly short period of time.

Apples include a beneficial compound. An apple juice a day could keep a trip to the heart doctor away, says new research. A team of researchers at UC Davis School of Medicine in the US have found that drinking apple juice appears to slow down a process that can lead to heart disease. Compounds in apples and apple juice called phytonutrients act in much the same way that red wine and tea do to delay the break down of LDL or “bad” cholesterol.

When LDL oxidises, or deteriorates in the blood, plaque accumulates along the walls of the coronary artery and causes arteriosclerosis (a dangerous thickening of the artery).

Lead researcher Dianne Hyson, a dietician, said: “Previous studies have shown that eating fruits and vegetables is associated with a reduced risk of coronary artery disease.” But this is the first clinical study to show the potential benefits of active compounds in apple juice and apples. Although the researchers expected to see positive results from drinking apple juice, they were surprised to find beneficial effects after only six weeks.

During the 12-week clinical study, 25 healthy adult men and women added either 12 ounces of 100% apple juice or two apples into their daily diet. Half of the participants drank 100% apple juice daily for six weeks while the other half ate apples including the peel. The varieties of apples the group consumed included Fuji, Golden Delicious, Granny Smith and Red Delicious. After six weeks, the subjects switched groups. Each participant kept a detailed five-day food record every two weeks, and researchers monitored the subjects' body weight throughout the 12-week study period.

There were no significant differences in the intake of dietary fat, cholesterol, total carbohydrate, sugar or calories. Researchers measured how long it took for LDL cholesterol to be broken down before the study and at each six-week interval – this is known as the oxidation lag time. Lag time measurements are commonly used to determine how long it takes for cholesterol to oxidise or break down when exposed to certain chemicals. A longer lag time indicates a greater delay in the start of oxidation, which is associated with a reduced risk of heart disease. The lag time increased by 20% after six weeks among those drinking apple juice.

Eating apples also showed potential health benefits, but not such a dramatic effect. A spokesperson for the British Heart Foundation (BHF) said: “The BHF says that a diet rich in fruit and vegetables is important and that five portions of fruit and vegetables daily, including fruit juices, will provide the body with a good supply of potent antioxidants.”

“This new research certainly gives credence to the rhyme “an apple a day keeps the doctor away!”