AVOCADO BENEFITS

Anyone interested in healthy nerves must take seriously the health benefits of avocado. The brain is 60% fat and all nerves are coated in a sheath made of fat. Deprive the brain or nerves of the healthy fatty acids, and you are in serious trouble.

You need to lose weight. So, cut out all fat? WRONG! BIG TIME WRONG! In fact, cut out all fat and you'll die.

It's interesting that mother's milk contains between 4-5 times as much fat as protein, because in the human infant it's the brain that grows at an incredible rate, in comparison with cow's milk for example in which the fat and protein are in roughly equal amounts. It's the body of a calf that needs to grow if it is to survive in the wild.

Interesting too that mother's milk varies markedly depending on what she eats. If mother is trying to lose weight by cutting out all the healthy fat in her diet, her baby too will suffer from a fat deficiency. (An aside: by and large, ironically, it's too much carbohydrate, not fat - sugar, colas, beer, bread, potato, rice, pasta - that makes most of us fat, rather than too much fat).

AVOCADO HEALTH BENEFITS

FATS

The important part of this building of healthy nerves is that they need to be coated in healthy fat. And one of the great health benefits of avocado is that it is rich in mono-unsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) and poly-unsaturated fatty acids (PUFA).

In the average diet we consume plenty of PUFAs, derived mainly from seed oils like sunflower, but far too little MUFAs.

The so-called "fruit oils" - derived from the olive and avocado primarily - are rich in MUFAs (aka monos). That's why the Mediterranean diet is so healthy - that eat plenty of olives, rich in MUFAs. One of the great avocado benefits is that we can also get these mono-unsaturated fatty acids ( MUFAs) from AVOCADO FAT

Why is avocado fat so healthy?

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AVOCADO NUTRITIONAL VALUE

A word of caution: 100g of avocado benefits is an average helping (half an avo). 100g of olives is a huge helping (about 30-40 olives), and munching your way through 100g of sunflower seeds will keep you busy for an hour or two!

In reality a helping of avocado (half an avo) has far more nutrient value than a helping of olives (say 10 olives) or sunflower seeds (say one teaspoon!)

Likewise, because 100g of avocado benefits contains about 160 kcal, don't think that it's less fattening than sunflower seeds. Not so. "Per helping," the nutritional value of avocado is much higher, it contains far more fat, and more nutrients too, especially the highly desirable phytosterol beta-sitosterol, in the prevention and treatment of prostate enlargement. Bernies healthy spinach dip contains half an avocado ...

ANTI OXIDANTS

The avocado fat is also rich in Vitamin E in good mixtures of alpha and gamma tocopherol. They have different functions, but inhibit each other, so taking just one form (as in tablet form, usually only the alpha form) or using corn oil only in your cooking (has gamma-tocopherol) is not advisable.

HOMOCYSTEINE

You may not know too much about homocysteine. It's a toxic breakdown product of our metabolism, and the body immediately converts it another (safe) substance called SAMe. The process is dependent on vitamin B6 and folate - they are particularly high in avocado, even higher than broccoli. The Western diet is often woefully deficient in these vitamins, and the levels of homocystein is often very high, causing many of the chronic diseases... HOMOCYSTEINE CARDIOVASCULAR ...

PROTEIN ...

Being high in protein and low in carbohydrate the avocado health benefits are perfect for our FREE WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAMS ... the healthy way to lose weight permanently.

GROWING AVOCADO TREES

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Vital, remember the Omega-3 fatty acids. They too are vital in the diet and non-existent amongst the health benefits of avocado. For omega-3 you need fatty fish like salmon and mackerel recipes, and linseed oil. Mackerel Recipes ...

ATTENTION DEFICIT

"After 15 weeks, parents of children who had been taking the combined oil supplement reported reduced inattention, hyperactivity, restlessness and impulsive behaviour, while these improvements were not reported in the placebo group." Story4

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