Guacamole: friend or foe?
Are Avocados Okay?
We know nuts are the healthiest source of fat—cutting our risk of dying from a heart attack in half. But what about avocados? Friend or foe? Is guacamole bad for you? Neither good nor bad? Or, pass the guacamole?
The chips we may eat them with are bad, but avocados are good for us. Help prevent cancer, may help arthritis, boost our immune system, and lower our cholesterol. We used to think oranges were the best fruit source of cholesterol-lowering phytosterols. That is, until avocados were tested.
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- H. Ding, Y. W. Chin, A. D. Kinghorn, and S. M. D'Ambrosio. Chemopreventive characteristics of avocado fruit. Semin. Cancer Biol., 17(5):386{394, 2007.
- R. Christensen, E. M. Bartels, A. Astrup, and H. Bliddal. Symptomatic efficacy of avocado-soybean unsaponiables (ASU) in osteoarthritis (OA) patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Osteoarthr. Cartil., 16(4):399{408, 2008.
- G. Donnarumma, E. Buommino, A. Baroni, L. Auricchio, A. De Filippis, V. Cozza, P. Msika, N. Piccardi, and M. A. Tufano. Effects of av119, a natural sugar from avocado, on malassezia furfur invasiveness and on the expression of HBD-2 and cytokines in human keratinocytes. Exp. Dermatol., 16(11):912{919, 2007.
Image thanks to You As A Machine via Flickr.
We know nuts are the healthiest source of fat—cutting our risk of dying from a heart attack in half. But what about avocados? Friend or foe? Is guacamole bad for you? Neither good nor bad? Or, pass the guacamole?
The chips we may eat them with are bad, but avocados are good for us. Help prevent cancer, may help arthritis, boost our immune system, and lower our cholesterol. We used to think oranges were the best fruit source of cholesterol-lowering phytosterols. That is, until avocados were tested.
To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring, watch the above video. This is just an approximation of the audio contributed by veganmontreal.
Please consider volunteering to help out on the site.
- H. Ding, Y. W. Chin, A. D. Kinghorn, and S. M. D'Ambrosio. Chemopreventive characteristics of avocado fruit. Semin. Cancer Biol., 17(5):386{394, 2007.
- R. Christensen, E. M. Bartels, A. Astrup, and H. Bliddal. Symptomatic efficacy of avocado-soybean unsaponiables (ASU) in osteoarthritis (OA) patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Osteoarthr. Cartil., 16(4):399{408, 2008.
- G. Donnarumma, E. Buommino, A. Baroni, L. Auricchio, A. De Filippis, V. Cozza, P. Msika, N. Piccardi, and M. A. Tufano. Effects of av119, a natural sugar from avocado, on malassezia furfur invasiveness and on the expression of HBD-2 and cytokines in human keratinocytes. Exp. Dermatol., 16(11):912{919, 2007.
Image thanks to You As A Machine via Flickr.
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Also check out Are Avocados Bad for You?
Update: In 2017, I did a couple of new videos about avocados: The Effects of Avocados and Red Wine on Meal-Induced Inflammation and Are Avocados Healthy?
And see my follow-up blog post: Any update on the scary in vitro avocado data?
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