AVOCADO HEALTH BENEFITS

1. Valuable Fat

Not all fat is bad for your body, and monounsaturated fat in particular is what constitutes the first health benefit of an avocado. In a typical avocado, most of the calories you receive come from monounsaturated fat. The monounsaturated fat in an avocado is healthy for you. Foods like avocados that contain monounsaturated fat lessen your LDL cholesterol, which is harmful to your body. On the other hand, HDL cholesterol has been called "good cholesterol," and there is speculation that monounsaturated fat actually raises this type of cholesterol.

2. Fiber Content

The second reason that you ought to be reminding yourself to eat avocados is their relatively high fiber content. A typical avocado will contain both insoluble and soluble fiber; that alone makes it very powerful, since not many foods can brag about containing both kinds of fiber. The breakdown in an average avocado is approximately 75 percent insoluble fiber to 25 percent soluble fiber. The benefits of each type of fiber are already well known. Insoluble fiber is great at cleaning out your bowels by way of increasingly efficient bowel movements. Not only will you stand a lesser chance of getting constipated, but you also will reduce your chance of getting colorectal cancer, since your colon will be cleaned out effectively. Soluble fiber is great for appetite control. It has the effect of making you feel full, because it turns into a gel that sits in your stomach for a while when it comes into contact with water.

3. Vitamins

The presence of vitamins makes up the third health benefit of an average avocado. The vitamins that you can find in an avocado are B vitamins along with vitamin K and vitamin E. B vitamins help your body's metabolism and its maintenance of a healthy skin tone, while vitamin K plays a fundamental role in making sure that your bones grow properly and that your bone density is maintained in later life. Vitamin E is necessary to avoid conditions like retinopathy.