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"In lab studies, avocado oil (rich in monounsaturated fat and oleic acid) incorporated into a cholesterol-rich diet significantly reduced the severity of aortic lesions, compared with coconut oil (high in saturated fat). The avocado oil also raised levels of HDL cholesterol. Improve cholesterol levels with fish and garlic. Good old garlic and fish omega-3s have been shown to synergistically lower total cholesterol, triglycerides, and the ratio of bad to good cholesterol as well as total to good cholesterol ratios." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Production: avocado oil is the oil the fruit of Persea americana. avocado oil is recovered from the of the pericarp of Persea americana and refined if necessary. ACTIONS AND PHARMACOLOGY COMPOUNDS Fatty oil: chief fatty acids oleic acid, palmitic acid, linoleic acid, palmitoleic acid (tocopherols, vitamin E) EFFECTS Avocado oil is an emollient, which improves rough ichtyotic skin. INDICATIONS AND USAGE Avocado is a main ingredient in so-called natural cosmetics." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

"Production: avocado oil comes from the fruit of Persea americana.. avocado oil is recovered from the pericarp of Persea americana and refined if necessary. actions and pharmacology COMPOUNDS Fatty oil: chief fatty acids oleic acid, palmitic acid, linoleic acid, palmitoleic acid (tocopherols, vitamin E) EFFECTS Avocado oil is an emollient, which improves rough ichtyotic skin. indications and usage Avocado is a main ingredient in lines of "natural" cosmetics." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"ARTHRITIS: A dietary supplement made from a combination of soybean and avocado oil may relieve symptoms of osteoarthritis. Four well-controlled studies have verified the effectiveness of this oil combination. PROSTATE CANCER: Dr. David Heber, director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, showed that when avocado extract was added to prostate cancer cells, cell growth was inhibited by up to sixty percent. Tips on Using Avocados SELECTION AND STORAGE: • Choose avocados that are soft to the touch but not too soft. • Hass avocados turn black when they are ripe." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"SOAPS Emily Skin Sootlwrs Soap Ingredients: shea butter, avocado oil, coconut oil, olive oil, palm oil, Angelica Sinensis Root, Potentillae Chinensis herb, Haplocalyx herb www.emilyskinsoothers.com Aubrey Organics Evening Primrose & Lavender Skin Care Bar Ingredients: primrose oil, lavender oil, shea butter, palm oil www.aubrey-organics.com Dr. Bronner's Baby Mild Organic Bar Soap Ingredients: saponified organic coconut, palm, and olive oils, water, organic hemp oil, organic jojoba oil, citric acid, vitamin E www.drbronner." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) "Aromababy Natural Baby Lotion Ingredients (certified organic): avocado oil, safflower oil, mango butter, evening primrose oil, jojoba oil, rosehip oil, vitamin E, hydroxymthlglycinate www.aromababy.com SHAMPOOS/CONDITIONERS Aubrey Organics Natural Baby and Kids Slwmpoo Ingredients: deionized water, coconut oil, corn oil soap, hydrolyzed soy protein, extracts of fennel, hops, balm mint, mistletoe, chamomile and yarrow, citrus seed extract, xanthan gum, vanilla oil, almond oil www.aubrey-organics.com Dr." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Vitamin B(12) cream containing avocado oil in the therapy of plaque psoriasis. Dermatology. 2001; 203(2):141-147. Bananas www.banana.com Emery EA, Ahmad S, Koethe JD, Skipper A, Perlmutter S, Paskin DL. Banana flakes control diarrhea in enterally fed patients. Nutr Clin Pract. 1997 Apr;12(2):72-75. Rabbani GH et al. Clinical studies in persistent diarrhea: dietary management with green banana or pectin in Bangladeshi children. Gastroenterology. 2001 Sep;121(3):554-560. Rabbani GH et al." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "A 2001 study in the Journal of Dermatology found that a cream containing vitamin B12 and avocado oil kept psoriasis outbreaks at bay longer when compared to a conventional vitamin D cream. Avocado and B12 creams are available without prescription. HIGH CHOLESTEROL: Patients with high cholesterol were placed on a diet high in avocado for seven days. These patients showed a significant decrease in total cholesterol, LDL ("bad") cholesterol, and triglycerides. These patients also showed a significant increase in HDL ("good") cholesterol." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Use natural oils such as avocado oil instead to remove dirt and old makeup. Apply it gently to your face and rinse it off with warm water. E-Gem Skin Care Soap from Carlson Laboratories is also good. Use a facial sponge or loofah (also spelled loofa or luffa) several times a week to remove dead, dry skin cells and stimulate circulation. Q After cleansing your skin, apply a moisturizing lotion, preferably while the skin is still damp. Vitamin A Moisturizing Gel from Derma-E Skin Care is a good non-greasy moisturizer that is quickly absorbed and diminishes the appearance of fine lines." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"Avoid Most Refined Oils Here s why: Olive oil, macadamia nut oil, and avocado oil are healthy, but most other oils are not. The worst offender is trans fat, found in shortening and often disguised under the term partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. It's equally important to avoid corn, soybean, and peanut oils, which are all high in inflammation-promoting compounds that promote damaging stress responses. Examples: Nearly all fried foods are cooked in a blend of unhealthy oils, including trans fats. Heating increases the amount of trans fat, sometimes up to 40 percent of the oil." - Jack Challem, The Food-Mood Solution: All-Natural Ways to Banish Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Stress, Overeating, and Alcohol and Drug Problems--and Feel Good Again (Get the book.)

"If that seems a bother, look for "high heat" safflower or avocado oil. It should be higher in monounsaturated fat (oleic acid) than standard safflower oil. A Contrarian Cholesterol Perspective Most cardiologists believe that cholesterol is like golf: There's no such thing as too low a score. Anyone who questions that view is considered a menace to the public health. And the media have accepted the concept that cholesterol is evil without much question. It comes as a shock to a lot of people to learn that cholesterol is essential for good health." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"Yet, PUFA sustain the most free-radical damage during heating—as much as 10,000 times the damage sustained by monounsaturates such as almond oil, avocado oil and olive oil.13 It is unlikely that you could eat enough vegetables and fruits—with their accompanying antioxidants—to ever balance out the destruction produced by the vast quantities of unhealthful fats in fried foods, especially in fast-fat restaurants. Here are some important questions: Could ingested oxidized fats find their way to the skin and create skin cancer?" - Marc Sorenson, Solar Power For Optimal Health (Get the book.)

"That includes things like raw nuts, seeds and healthy plant oils like olive oil, avocado oil, or even cocoa oil, which is the fat from chocolate. Make sure you get your oils from plants, and if necessary, if you still need some meat, you can eat oily fish such as salmon in order to get oils from those fish. Just watch out for the heavy metal content of fish or seafood. As you're eating these raw nuts and seeds, you're also getting vitamin E, which is very important for cardiovascular health, and you're getting it in its natural form rather than the synthetic form found in most vitamins." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Or use avocado on the skin directly. avocado oil is similar to our skin's oil. To help dissipate scars, try applying the following formula directly to the skin every other day for several weeks: two tablespoons raw aloe vera gel, one tablespoon of parsley juice and one tablespoon of spirulina. MSM lotion used alternately with a topical vitamin C cream also works wonderfully. Thyroid Imbalance The thyroid is a large endocrine gland situated at the base of the neck. The thyroid controls the basal metabolic rate." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"To restore color and texture to brittle, yellowed nails, make a mixture of equal parts of honey, avocado oil, and egg yolk, and add a pinch of salt. Rub the mixture into your nails and cuticles. Leave it on for half an hour, then rinse it off. Repeat this treatment daily. You should begin to see results after about two weeks. Q To strengthen the nails, try soaking them in warm olive oil or cider vinegar for ten to twenty minutes daily. Q Treat your nails gently. Using them to pry, pick, scrape, or perform tasks such as removing staples can damage them. þ Keep your nails relatively short." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"In the same subjects, adding either twenty-four grams of avocado oil or 150 grams avocado to salad greatly enhanced alpha-carotene, beta-carotene and lutein absorption by 7.2, 15.3 and 5.1 times, respectively, compared with avocado-free salad!(18) Animal fats contain important fat-soluble vitamins. It is in the fatty portions of meat, dairy and eggs where one finds the highest concentrations of fat-soluble vitamins such as A, D, E and beta-carotene(19). Stripping the skin from your chicken breast not only makes it less tasty, but also reduces its vitamin A content by seventy-eight percent!" - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Apply avocado oil, calendula ointment, lanolin, and olive oil (separately or in combination) to the breasts to help prevent soreness during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. Q To prevent sore nipples, feed your baby frequently to avoid having a baby who is overly hungry bite down roughly on the nipple. Be sure your baby's mouth takes in as much of the areola (the dark area of the nipple) as possible. The baby shouldn't make slurping noises when feeding. Q Change nursing positions often to rotate the pressure of the baby's mouth on the breast, and learn to break suction correctly." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"The second ingredient is a holding agent that is typically used in hairsprays, and that gives this a sticky feel that is slightly offset by the avocado oil. This is an OK product for short hairstyles when you want the molding capabilities of a pomade combined with the strong hold of a hairspray. Do keep in mind that although your hair will remain pliable, the sticky feeling does not dissipate. © Hemp Seed Polishing Gloss ($14.10 for 2.5 ounces) is a standard, but very good, silicone gel that contains some SD-alcohol, but not enough to cause irritation." - Paula Begoun, Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me (Get the book.)

"For salads, try coconut oil, extra-virgin olive oil, any of the nut oils (macadamia, hazelnut, almond, walnut), avocado oil, or sesame oil. You can also use flaxseed oil or perilla oil. I don't recommend canola oil. To be used commercially, it has to be partially hydrogenated, refined, and deodorized, and in the process its omega-3s become a potent source of trans-fatty acids. If you do use it, make sure to get organic, cold-pressed, or expeller-pressed canola oil (such as Spectrum), and only use it cold." - Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S., Living the Low Carb Life: Controlled Carbohydrate Eating for Long-Term Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"It takes ten avocados to make one teaspoon of pure avocado oil, which can harm the liver, whereas ten avocados in their natural state do no harm to the body. Bamboo Shoots (Bambusa, Arundinaria, Dendrocalamus, Phyllostachys sppj The genus name Bambusa and the English rerm bamboo come from the Malayan word bambu. Arundinaria is derived from the Latin term arundo, meaning "reedlike"; Dendrocalamus derives from the Greek terms dendron, meaning "tree," and calamus, meaning "reed"; Phyllostachys means "spike-leaved." - Dianne Onstad, Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods (Get the book.)

"Dry & Porous Shampoo above, except this one contains almond oil instead of avocado oil. Otherwise, the same basic comments apply. © Definition Shine & Vitality Shampoo, for Normal Hair ($8 for 8.4 ounces) is nearly identical to the Dry & Porous Shampoo above, but the formula takes a wrong turn and causes unnecessary scalp irritation by including an appreciable amount of lime oil. © Definition Shine & Vitality Intensive Shampoo ($8 for 8.4 ounces) is nearly identical to the Shine & Vitality Shampoo, for Normal Hair above, and the same comments apply." - Paula Begoun, Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me (Get the book.) "The second ingredient is a holding agent that is typically used in hairsprays, and that gives this a sticky feel that is slightly offset by the avocado oil. This is an OK product for short hairstyles when you want the molding capabilities of a pomade combined with the strong hold of a hairspray. Do keep in mind that although your hair will remain pliable, the sticky feeling does not dissipate. © Hemp Seed Polishing Gloss ($14.10 for 2.5 ounces) is a standard, but very good, silicone gel that contains some SD-alcohol, but not enough to cause irritation." - Paula Begoun, Don't Go Shopping for Hair-Care Products Without Me (Get the book.)

"According to Aubrey Hampton, author of Natural Organic Hair and Skin Care, long-term treatment with avocado oil helps relieve eczema. I'm not surprised, as avocado oil is rich in vitamins A, D and E, all of which help maintain healthy skin. I suggest applying it directly to any itchy, red or irritated areas. It might also be helpful to ingest the oil and use it in salad dressings. Calendula (Calendula officinalis). Small wonder that this pretty flower has a folk reputation for treating all kinds of skin problems." - James A. Duke, Ph.D., The Green Pharmacy: New Discoveries in Herbal Remedies for Common Diseases and Conditions from the World's Foremost Authority on Healing Herbs (Get the book.)

"Through our interpreter, I learned that they were using avocado oil to keep their skin from getting burned by the hot, glaring sun and the rough elements of wind and rain. They even rubbed some on their lips to keep them nice and moist. Some of the Chorti women seemed to be in their late 20s or early 30s. Imagine my utter astonishment when my interpreter told me that most of them were in their mid-to-late fifties! Now I'm a pretty good judge of age because of my training in anthropology, but their constant use of avocado oil sure fooled me about how old I thought they were." - John Heinerman, Heinerman's Encyclopedia of Fruits, Vegetables and Herbs (Get the book.)

"This change makes these fats act differently than their sister fats, the naturally occurring cis fats, like the ones we find in olive oil, avocado oil, palm oil, almond oil and many other natural oils. A catalyst and pressure are usually used to make the reaction possible and fast, and the hydrogenation process is very drastic. Many popular prepared foods contain trans fats, including pastries, breads, cookies, doughnuts, cereals and potato chips. They are used by some restaurants in preparing French fries." - Gene A. Spiller, The Trans Fats Dilemma and Natural Palm Oil (Get the book.)

"They contain eight to ten times more linoleic acid than monounsaturated oils (olive and avocado oil). Canola oil has about three times as much linoleic acid as olive oil. None of these oils is rich in the omega-3 fatty acids. Monounsaturated fatty acids, found most abundantly in olive and avocado oils, don't tip the balance of the specialized hormones one way or the other. They do, however, have calories and many of the taste-enhancing effects of fats and oils." - David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., What Color is Your Diet? (Get the book.)

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