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When you visit the website of David “Avocado” Wolfe, then you must know you’ll find the answer to that burning question: why eat avocados?

5 Reasons Why You Should Be Eating Avocados Every Day

We’ve all heard the age old quote, “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Now we say, “an avocado a day keeps the doctor away, forever!” Here are 5 reasons why you should be eating avocados daily.

1. Avocados Will Not Make You Fat                  

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Why eat avocados? Why not! Fast food, chips, soda, white bread – those are all things that will make you fat. Avocados… not so much. Avocados contain monounsaturated fat and, like olive oil, a high preponderance of oleic acid – this is a healthy fat and a beautifying oil. Oleic acid is gaining a reputation (through the Mediterranean Diet) as helping to keep us slim as we age. Oleic acid is also believed to decrease our chances of developing heart disease.

2. Curbs Hunger

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If you find yourself constantly snacking, an avocado can help change that. Studies have shown that meals that include avocados and other healthy fats cause you to feel full, taking away the need to eat more. Because they consist mostly of healthy fatty acids, they produce a blood-sugar, friendly, ketogenic effect. So the next time you reach for a bag of chips, go for the avocado instead.

3. Packed With Nutrients

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You already know that avocados are good for us, but what is actually inside it that makes it such a healthy treat? Well, for starters, an avocado typically packs over 14 minerals inside. Each avocado also contains:

• 18 essential amino acids (protein) and 2 grams of protein per 100 grams of avocado.

• Soluble fiber.

• Phytosterols: beta-sitosterol, campesterol, and stigmasterol that may help keep arthritis and other forms of inflammation under control.

• Carotenoids: This fruit contains an unusually high amount of antioxidant, oil-soluble carotenoids. These include o-carotene, yellow alpha-carotene and yellow lutein, but also many lesser-known carotenoids including yellow epsilon-carotene, yellow neochrome, yellow neoxanthin, yellow chrysanthemaxanthin, orange beta-cryptoxanthin, orange zeaxanthin, and yellow violaxanthin.

• Chlorophyll: This is what gives avocados their beautiful green glow. Chlorophyll is a deodorizer, detoxifier, and neutralizer of toxins.

• Polyhydroxylated fatty alcohols (PFAs): These are more widely prevalent in ocean plants but relatively unique among land plants—making the avocado tree (and its fruit) unusual in this regard. Like the avocado’s phytosterols, its PFAs also provide us with anti-inflammatory benefits and skin protection from ultraviolet radiation.

• Vitamins: B (folic acid), C, E

4. Can Be Added To Many Meals

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Avocados are awesome because they can be used to turn ordinary meals into wonderful meals. Mash up an avocado, and boom, you’ve got guacamole. Throw a few avocado slices on some hempseed or chia-seed gluten-free bread or raw cracker and you have a tasty snack. You can place avocado on top of almost any food.

Avocados are great with sea salt or nearly any form of seaweed. Their high potassium content is balanced by the high sodium content of sea salt and seaweeds. Avocados are also wonderful in salads. More recently avocados have made their way into smoothie recipes. And of course, no guacamole is possible without its essential ingredient.

5. Long-Term Health

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So why eat avocados?

Now you understand what makes this fruit so special. Not only do avocados have tons of nutrients and are very delicious, but they also will benefit your health in the long run. Those healthy fats will help keep your blood sugar levels in check, your good cholesterol at optimum levels and can neutralize inflammation in the brain and body all while being an excellent energy source.

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However, one question remains: can you eat an avocado pit? The answer is yes, but they are less than excellent and not recommended.

Head on over to AvocadoCentral.com for more tips and facts about avocados.

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David “Avocado” Wolfe is the rock star and Indiana Jones of the superfoods and longevity universe. The world’s top CEOs, ambassadors, celebrities, athletes, artists, and the real superheroes of this planet—Moms—all look to David for expert advice in health, beauty, herbalism, nutrition, and chocolate! David is the celebrity spokesperson for America’s #1 selling kitchen appliance: the NUTRiBULLET™. He is the visionary founder and president of the non-profit The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation charity (www.ftpf.org) with a mission to plant 18 billion fruit, nut, and medicinal trees on planet Earth.

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22 Responses

  1. S.A.

    David…I love avocados, but in my mid-30s I started being unable to eat them. They give me horrendous stomach cramps. Do you have any information on why this might be?

  2. Roslyn Holloway

    Why would I need gluten-free bread (or gluten-free anything). Only people who have celiac disease or who are allergic to gluten should avoid gluten. The rest of us can eat it without any problems whatsoever. Please don’t disseminate nonsense.

      • Karen Johnson Marez

        I can testify that by going wheat and gluten free I have changed my life dramatically. I thought I had developed ibromyalgia; every joint in my body was aching for over a month. So I just decided to eliminate the wheat and gluten from my diet and I feel like I’m a new person, Not everyone has to steer clear of it but more and more people are as they learn that it is the cause of their inflammation.

        • Roslyn Holloway

          I don’t know what else you were eating that might have been causing your inflammation. Often, it’s the additives or preservatives that cause problems that we then blame on the wheat or gluten. Unless you have been tested and found to be allergic or sensitive to wheat or gluten, I’d bet money that something else was causing your joint pain. Your experience is anecdotal, not scientific.

          • KJMarez

            My anecdotal experience proves my point. Science is not the only means by which we learn truths. I have zero doubts about my statement as I accidentally exposed myself again to wheat and gluten only one time since I began my personal experiment—a communion wafer at church which is made of only two ingredients: wheat flour and water—and I could feel the effects by that evening. I ate it without really thinking about it out of tradition. Seeing how there are only those two ingredients in these wafers, I can clearly deduce that I have an allergy or sensitivity to wheat/gluten and I don’t need to pay someone to run a test to prove something I already know.

          • Roslyn Holloway

            No, it doesn’t.

            Whenever we offer an empirical claim as true, we are expected to support that claim with evidence — pieces of information which, when taken together, tend to point to the truth of our claim. Evidence which proves our claim is best, but not absolutely required. Naturally, when searching for evidence one of the first
            sources we look to is our own experience in the world, because it is typically
            that experience which we rely upon most heavily when trying to understand
            reality.

            Nevertheless, this reliance upon personal experience can be too strong and become too unreasonable. The use of small pieces of anecdotal evidence as a basis for conclusions about wide-ranging phenomena and complex systems can be classified as a type of Rash Generalization, an informal fallacy which involves generalizing from a particular example to an the entire class of which that example is a member, without regard for any other possible factors.

            The use of anecdotal evidence and testimonials from others is so common and often goes unrecognized for the problem that it is: It’s not a question
            about whether those personal experiences are true — even if we assume that the explanations are 100% accurate and true, problems necessarily remain. So what’s wrong with relying upon personal experiences?

            Scientific inquiry and rational conclusions do not rely upon just a few personal observations about our own lives. Such observations are often the perfect *starting point* for inquiry and hypothesizing, but they are insufficient as the basis for solid *conclusions. Thus, one’s own experiences with acupuncture or divorce would be a justifiable basis for supposing that, perhaps, maybe there is something to acupuncture or maybe there is something to people’s worries about the breakdown in marriage. But that’s as far as anecdotal evidence alone can justifiably take us.

            Merely because certain events have occurred in a certain fashion in our lives doesn’t mean that they always occur in that manner, or that they must necessarily occur in that manner. Our experiences are inherently limited and narrow in scope: we only see certain things and we only perceive them from a certain perspective. Thus, their value is extremely limited.

          • savannah

            As i read some of there reply i wonder if you all come from the U.S.A. on the plantet earth. With all the mobo jobo about an Avocado. Why is it people can’t just stick to the subject AVOCADOS.

          • Kevin Dean Heairet

            Because we have become a argumentative society!!!!! It lets out and stirs up stress :)

  7. Health-Hippie

    S A….I rarely…almost never…comment on all the wonderful articles I have the pleasure of reading, but I thought I would share why I avoid avocados. I avoid avocados because I have a latex sensitivity. I only mention it because it had such a HUGE impact on my health. I mentioned to a friend that when I blow up balloons, my lips and fingertips tingle (she said she thought it may be a sign that I have a latex problem), she suggested trying to cut out nightshades, bananas, and avocados (and, recently I heard kiwi, as well, but I am not completely sure about that one). I had been doing GAPS and The Maker’s Diet (LOVE them both:), but was still not at a comfortable weight…..when I cut out those things suggested, not kidding, I DROPPED 65lbs….WITH NO EFFORT….the weight fell off SO fast people were asking me if I was okay….but, I felt wonderful:):) Anyhoo…..that may not be your issue, but it taught me a valuable lesson, in that I now understand that no matter how great a food may be, I must always remember that how it reacts in my body, is what matters most:):)

    • Maury Brooks

      I heard the seed was loaded with amino acids also. Really good for you but never had this confirmed. With a vitamix I had mixed the seed into smoothies at one time. It is actually a pretty soft seed. Would love to learn more on this.

  9. Barbara Sabbath

    I buy AvoBuddies, by IndexFresh Inc. in Calif. They are bagged approx 12 per bag for $ 2.99 a bag, they are a great deal! Less calories than Medium or even small avocados! You can check out the nutritional value on Facebook!

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