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Related: About this forumAn avocado a day may help keep bad cholesterol at bay
Eating one avocado a day as part of a heart healthy, cholesterol-lowering moderate-fat diet can help improve bad cholesterol levels in overweight and obese individuals, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
Researchers evaluated the effect avocados had on traditional and novel cardiovascular risk factors by replacing saturated fatty acids from an average American diet with unsaturated fatty acids from avocados.
Forty-five healthy, overweight or obese patients between the ages of 21 and 70 were put on three different cholesterol-lowering diets. Participants consumed an average American diet (consisting of 34 percent of calories from fat, 51 percent carbohydrates, and 16 percent protein) for two weeks prior to starting one of the following cholesterol lowering diets: lower fat diet without avocado, moderate-fat diet without avocado, and moderate-fat diet with one avocado per day. The two moderate fat diets both provided 34 percent of calories as fat (17 percent of calories from monounsaturated fatty acids/MUFAs), whereas the lower fat diet provided 24 percent of calories as fat (11 percent from MUFAs). Each participant consumed each of the three test diet for five weeks. Participants were randomly sequenced through each of the three diets.
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Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)Now there's a real ballsy tree!
Avocado. The word avocado comes from the Aztec (Nahuatl) word ahuacatl, via Spanish aguacate and means testicle. Perhaps because of its appearance (and the fact that the fruit grows in pairs), the Aztecs believed avocadoes were an aphrodisiac and called it "the fertility fruit". Apparently during avocado harvesting, virgins were kept indoors to prevent any promiscuity taking place.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)In any event, I'm doing my part today! Tortilla soup with lots of avocado!
leftyladyfrommo
(18,869 posts)It's chuck full of good stuff. But I'm allergic to it. Otherwise I would eat them like apples. When I eat too much it sets my hay fever off and my mouth and ears and throat start to itch.
tridim
(45,358 posts)Inherited it from my Father's side of the family. It makes condom use a bit awkward.
Thankfully it is fading as I get older.