If you know anything about avocados you will know that they are pretty high in fat content, but before you go and judge the avocado, you might want to take a close look at the avocado and how it can help your health. Yes, the avocado has many great wonders, it has many undiscovered possibilities, and it is definitely a super food. Even though the avocado is full of fats, you need to look at what type of fats it has. Yes, it has some saturated fat but what it has more of and a lot of it is monounsaturated fat. I know what you are asking, what the heck is monounsaturated fat? You think that fat is fat and that it is bad for you, but that is not sure, there are some great fats out there that do not make you fat, one of them being avocado fat. Research has found that diets high in monounsaturated fat is great for controlling your weight, because it has beneficial effects on your blood sugar. Another thing that an avocado has is carbohydrates, and most of us try to stay away from carbs, but the great thing about the avocado is that is has almost as more dietary fiber than it has carbs, so it pretty much cancels it out. But even the carbs in an avocado has some benefits. The avocado also contains a carb called mannoheptulose, which helps lower insulin secretion. The avocado is not only good for weight control.
The avocado is also good for your heart; you can actually meet the dietary guidelines of the American heart association when you eat an avocado, mainly because it is mostly monounsaturated fat. So if you are having problems eating food that contains a lot of saturated fat, maybe you should have for meals with avocados in them. The avocado is also good for your eyesight. An avocado contains lutein; in fact an ounce of avocado has around 81 micrograms of lutein. Lutein has been shown to be in the macula of the eye, so eating avocados can help your eyesight as you age. The great thing about avocados is that you can use them in so many recipes, and you can use avocado oil in cooking, for healthier meals. One of my personal favorites is guacamole, I love guacamole, and if you get chips that are made from avocados then it is even better and healthier.
Avocado is sometimes known as the alligator pear because of the texture of its skin and its pear-like shape. The avocado contains a good supply of carotene, there being three times as much in a well-colored ripe fruit as in a hard one. Analysts have found no less than 11 vitamins and 17 minerals in avocado, making it a very comprehensive storehouse of the nutritional needs of man.
There is a high level of oil which contains the vitamins A, D, and E, and is rich in the mono-unsaturated fat oleic acid. This type of fat is the principal constituent of olive oil which is rapidly gaining credence for preventing of heart disease. Although the calorie count of the avocado is large, there being 165 calories in l00g (40z), it is of excellent nutritional worth
The avocado is also rich in vitamin 86, with an impressive 530 micrograms per l00g (40z). There is evidence that the leaves and fruits of the avocado have been shown to contain a substance known to be somewhat toxic to goats, rabbits, horses and canaries. There is no evidence that there is any danger to man, but for the sake of prudence it is best to have no more than one avocado a day whether juiced or fresh.
Happily the fate of the unfortunate canary need not affect the use of avocado juice in the therapy because the best effect is found when the juice is employed as an external application to the skin. Avocado juice is a good way of having a balanced quantity of the oil of avocado. The oil is second only to lanolin in being the most penetrating oil known when applied to the human skin.
Yet, unlike lanolin which is thought by many experts to be the cause of more cases of sensitivity to cosmetics than any other ingredient, avocado is emollient and innocuous without any known sensitizing effects. It can therefore be used externally as the ideal treatment for soothing sensitive skins. Avocado reduces ultra violet light and is a useful sun screening lotion for use prior to moderate exposure to the suns rays.
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