Avocados are popular and a la carte in many trendy restaurants. Should we make them absolute confidence ? Perhaps not in light of the results of a study published by researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science. The findings (source 1) were published in the November 11, 2021 online issue of Nutrients.
The researchers conducted a controlled trial to compare the potential health effects between families consuming three avocados per week and those eating fourteen per week. All the families were of Mexican origin. “Families with high avocado consumption reported lower calorie consumption, reducing their consumption of other foods, including dairy products, refined meats and grains and their associated negative nutrients, such as saturated fat and sodium,” summarized this study. In addition, the researchers also found that the biggest consumers of avocados have also recorded a decrease in their calcium intake, iron, sodium, vitamin D, potassium and magnesium.
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“Data regarding the effects of consuming avocados on the nutritional status of the family is lacking,” said senior author Matthew Allison, professor and head of the preventive medicine division of the faculty’s department of family medicine. of UC San Diego Medicine. Before adding: “Recent trials have focused on individuals, primarily adults, and have been limited to changes in blood markers of cardiometabolic disease. The results of our tests provide evidence that nutrition education and a high consumption of avocados reduce the total caloric energy in families of Mexican origin ”.
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Monounsaturated fatty acids
While the researchers did not measure any change in the body mass index measurements or waist circumference of the different participants, they found that greater consumption of avocados appeared to be. accelerate satiety.
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What are the advantages of the lawyer ? He is rich in monounsaturated fatty acids – good fats, in vitamins C, E, K and B6. It also contains interesting levels of magnesium, potassium and beta-carotene. Half an avocado provides 20% of the recommended daily fiber, 10% of the potassium and 5% of the magnesium.
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