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.
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?
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.
“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
How much is considered a serving?