Posted on 03/31/2022 10:58:22 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Eating two or more servings of avocado weekly was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, and substituting avocado for certain fat-containing foods like butter, cheese or processed meats was associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease events, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.
Avocados contain dietary fiber, unsaturated fats especially monounsaturated fat (healthy fats) and other favorable components that have been associated with good cardiovascular health. Clinical trials have previously found avocados have a positive impact on cardiovascular risk factors including high cholesterol.
Researchers believe this is the first, large, prospective study to support the positive association between higher avocado consumption and lower cardiovascular events, such as coronary heart disease and stroke.
After considering a wide range of cardiovascular risk factors and overall diet, study participants who ate at least two servings of avocado each week had a 16% lower risk of cardiovascular disease and a 21% lower risk of coronary heart disease, compared to those who never or rarely ate avocados.
Based on statistical modeling, replacing half a serving daily of margarine, butter, egg, yogurt, cheese or processed meats such as bacon with the same amount of avocado was associated with a 16% to 22% lower risk of cardiovascular disease events.
Substituting half a serving a day of avocado for the equivalent amount of olive oil, nuts and other plant oils showed no additional benefit.
No significant associations were noted in relation to stroke risk and how much avocado was eaten.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
I’m not surprised.
Two servings a week brings a possible 16% - 22% cardio benefit? That’s an easy thing to do.
I am SO sick of these useless ‘findings’.
“substituting avocado for certain fat-containing foods like butter”
Instructions unclear. Tried to bake a cake and wound up with guacamole dough.
Does any avocado work? There are big and small, there are green, ripe and overripe and avocados that have become black with flies hanging around?
Saw something along these lines recently for bananas, and what health compounds exist at various points in its ripeness cycle.
Saw something along these lines recently for bananas, and what health compounds exist at various points in its ripeness cycle.
Once avocados are ripe, they either need to be eaten immediately or stored in the refrigerator. They will keep a week or two refrigerated after peak ripeness, but they will turn into grey mush if left any longer. I usually buy avocados in bulk and ripen them by putting them with over ripe bananas. After a day or so, they are perfect.
They are all good.......................
I love avocados, and believe they offer great benefit for brain health, but this study is odd. Wouldn't participants have seen the same heart benefits from simply cutting OUT cheese and processed meats, without adding avocados?
I am SO sick of these useless ‘findings’.
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Yep. 2 servings a week huh? That’s all it takes?
Who sponsored this study?
Taco TWOsday.
“...Substituting half a serving a day of avocado for the equivalent amount of olive oil, nuts and other plant oils showed no additional benefit...”
Hmm. Was this a control group, if not, perhaps avocado oil vs the real fruit should be looked at?
Frankly I’d rather have the disease.
That’s fine for those that enjoy avocado, but for folks like me, this headline reads:
“Projectile Vomiting Leads to Lower Risk of Heart Disease”
I’ll pass, thanks. Avocadoes are vile greasy stinkpots. You can have my share of guacamole, too. Bleah!
If avocados are on your list right now, be prepared to pick through a lower supply and pay almost double the price versus a year ago. The average price of a Haas avocado is currently about $1.50, whereas the average price in January 2021 was about $0.99. Unfortunately, it’s not a “more bang for your buck” situation—in fact, it’s the opposite.
An Austin-based reporter with Axios wrote that the price of one small avocado at his local H-E-B rose from $0.52 (last year) to $0.91 (this week). The same phenomenon is happening at other stores, too. Walmart is currently retailing small avocados for around $1.
What constitutes a “serving”? I rarely eat avacado because I imagine it to be akin to eating putty, or similar glop....except the putty might actually have some flavor.
Avocados are like Scotch. It’s an acquired taste. I used to hate them both.
Is that with the dried cranberries or instead of?
“Clinical trials have previously found avocados have a positive impact on cardiovascular risk factors including high cholesterol.”
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“The study aligns with the American Heart Association’s guidance to follow the Mediterranean diet—a dietary pattern focused on fruits, vegetables, grains, beans, fish and other healthy foods and plant-based fats such as olive, canola, sesame and other non-tropical oils.”
One-trick ponies still, I see, worsened by ignoring the fatty acid profile of the fruit. These are the types of studies I abhor, no different than the ones which demonstrated a link between eggs and CVD decades ago. /s
I do wish our scientific/medical research system wasn’t so awash with graduate researchers who ‘barely’ got their degrees and somehow still manage to write a grant request sufficient to receive funds and thereby feed themselves. Many of these types of studies are the result. Others - probably like this one - result from biased study guidelines intended to frame a result favorable to an organization to qualify their budget largesse (American Heart Association).
Warning: Rapeseed oil was NEVER a component of the Mediterranean ‘diet’, but its inclusion says all you need to know about the AHA’s inherent, persistent bias.
The fact is that CVD is STILL the #1 killer DESPITE all their blather about ‘treatment successes’ after BILLIONS of dollars spent.
Business is good, obviously. /s
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