healthy living tips by Dr.Vina: avocado

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Heart-friendly fat

Labels: avocado, fat, nuts, olive oil, omega-3, salmon Posted by Vina Revi on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 1:40 PM

Fat has had a bad reputation as far as a healthy diet is concerned. However this is not the entire story.

Some types of fat are in fact good for your heart!

To straighten things out, let me emphasize that there are in general to kind of fats:
saturated fat and unsaturated fat.
Saturated fat or solid fat is the bad guys, your heart would have a lot of problems with them. Unsaturated fats are heart-friendly and they clean your arteries and make your heart happy. There are three types of unsaturated fats:

monounsaturated fat from certain vegetable oils
polyunsaturated omega-6 fats from vegetable oils
polyunsaturated omega-3 from fish and other seafood

To make things clearer, here are list
of our heart-friendly fats along with their sources:

Mono unsaturated\|	Omega-6 \|	Omega-3
Olive oil	Soybean oil	Salmon
Canola oil	Corn oil	Sardines
Avocado	Saff flower	Clams
Almonds	Nuts	Anchovies
Peanuts	Sunflower oil	Soybeans
		Flax seed
		Bluefish
		Swordfish

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Demystifying avocado

Labels: avocado, fruit, guacamole, LDL, mono-unsaturated Posted by Vina Revi on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 10:55 AM

Contrary to what many people tend to believe, avocados are friendly to our heart. One medium black bumpy type avocado has a staggering 340 calories, 70% of it coming from fat.
The fat however is the heart-friendly monounsaturated.