Integrating an avocado a day for 6 months into your diet would be a remedy against cholesterol.
- Avocados improve diet quality and help lower cholesterol levels.
- French avocado consumption is 1.2 kg per person (which represents the equivalent of five medium-sized avocados), the highest rate in Europe.
We never tire of discovering the virtues of avocado for health!
Indeed, its richness in antioxidant, fiber, good fatty acids, vitamin B and K, have made it a star of health food and a new study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association adds a new size data.
Positive effect
Eating an avocado a day for six months is not only not fattening – no effect on belly fat, liver fat or waist circumference in overweight or obese people – according to the researchers, but eating it may a positive effect on cholesterol levels which would decrease.
The team of scientists also found that participants who ate avocados had higher quality diets during the study period.
Researchers conducted a six-month experiment on more than 1,000 overweight or obese participants, with half of them instructed to eat an avocado every day, while the other half continued their usual diet and was told to limit her avocado intake to less than two a month.
LDL cholesterol
Fat in the abdomen and around other organs was accurately measured by MRI before and at the end of the study.
“Consuming extra calories from avocados has no impact on body weight or abdominal fat, and it slightly lowers total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol,” confirmed Joan Sabaté, a professor at the School of Public Health. from Loma Linda University.
Indeed, they found that daily consumption of avocados specifically lowered total cholesterol by 2.9 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) and LDL cholesterol by 2.5 mg/dL.
LDL cholesterol is often referred to as “bad cholesterol” because its excess constitutes a cardiovascular risk factor.
