Research shows that eating avocado is incredibly healthy
Avocados are super healthy. Packed with good fats, fiber, vitamin E, folate, potassium and incredibly nutritious to boot. But there’s more good news for avocado lovers. A new study shows that eating one avocado a week significantly reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Whether you make guacamole with it or mash it on your toast and grate an egg over it, the ‘fruit vegetable’ — avocado is classified as a vegetable because it is usually eaten as one — is very good for you. That was also the result of a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAMA), in which around 68,786 women and 41,701 men took part.
Incredibly healthy
After extensive research, the experts found that people who ate one avocado a week had as much as a 21 percent lower risk of certain cardiovascular diseases. Even better if you use the avocado as a replacement for margarine, butter or cheese, for example. Replacing olive oil, nuts or other plant-based oils, however, did not appear to have a notable effect.
Additional evidence
But isn’t an avocado incredibly fatty? I can hear you thinking it. And that’s true, but the fat in avocado is mainly oleic acid. Oleic acid is an unsaturated fat. Unsaturated fat lowers LDL cholesterol in the blood. A high LDL cholesterol level is not good for the blood vessels and can eventually lead to cardiovascular disease. So with an avocado, you get good fats, just as you do from fatty fish and nuts, for example.
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