Avocado for your health

I have known avocados from one Japanese friend of mine who said avocados taste like fatty tuna (Toro) which is very expensive in Japan. He told me that I should eat it by dripping in a soy sauce like Sushi or Sashimi. Yes, it tastes like close to fatty tuna (Toro).

I have forgotten avocados for a long time. When I had high blood sugar and high cholesterol, I was checking how I can make my bad cholesterol (VLDL, LDL) lower and my good cholesterol (HDL) higher using internet sites and I found avocados as one of good candidates. I studied about avocados. Avocados are originated in south-central Mexico. The were imported in California in 1871. California produces 90% of domestic avocados. There are eight kinds of avocados. Personally I like Hass which is a leading variety of California avocado. They are sodium- and cholesterol-free and have 20 vitamins, minerals, and five grams of fat per serving, most of which is mono- and poly-unsaturated fat. They contain 81 micrograms of the carotenoid lutein, which some studies suggest may help maintain healthy eyes. They contained 76 milligram beta-sitosterol which is a natural plant sterol which may help maintain healthy cholesterol levels. Brazilians add avocados to ice cream. Filipinos puree avocados with sugar and milk for a dessert drink. I use them as a spread instead of mayonnaise in sandwiches and hamburgers. One experiment that US researcher fed rabbits with four kinds of oil for 90 days showed that serum cholesterol levels were significantly higher in the rabbits fed coconut oil (saturated fat) than in any other groups (corn oil, olive oil, and avocado oil-unsaturated fats) and good cholesterol (HDL) was significantly lowest in the coconut oil fed group. The two groups fed by the primarily mono-unsaturated fats(olive oil and avocado oil) exhibited higher levels of serum HDL than did the rabbits fed by corn oil (poly-unsaturated fat), and triglyceride levels in all four experimental groups were similar (Nutrition, Kritchevsky et al., 22, p52-55, 2003).