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"Preparation time: 8 minutes 4 ripe avocados, peeled and pitted; combine Hass avocados and fuerta avocado (lighter-skinned avocado) 3 tablespoons fresh lemon or lime juice 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro salt, to taste Combine the avocados, juice, and garlic in a medium bowl; mash with the back of a fork or potato masher. Add cilantro (optional), and salt, and mix well to blend flavors. Cover and transfer to refrigerator. Serve cold. Makes 4 cups. After-School Snacks." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Replacing bananas with avocados decreases the sugar content and adds good fats. avocados are loaded with good fats and magnesium, both of which are much needed when you are Spent. Because of this, avocados are my preferred base ingredient for breakfast smoothies. A deficiency of magnesium is common when you are Spent and can lead to muscle pain, headaches, constipation, fatigue, and insomnia. The other smoothie ingredient that I am a big fan of is whey protein. I use and suggest all my patients use whey protein in their morning shake because whey is an easy-to-digest protein." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"How a High-Fat Food Might Help If you don't eat avocados because they're so high in fat, it's time to rethink that. While it is true that avocados are among the fruits with HEART DISEASE «M * G the highest fat content, recent research reports claim that subjects who ate a diet rich in avocados and olive oil had a drop in total cholesterol of more than 8% in less than two months. Of course, the olive oil may have contributed more to the cholesterol drop than the avocado, but remember: It's the tortilla chips that do more harm than the guacamole!" - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Preparation time: 8 minutes 4 ripe avocados, peeled and pitted; combine Hass avocados and fuerta avocado (lighter-skinned avocado) 3 tablespoons fresh lemon or lime juice 4 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro salt, to taste Combine the avocados, juice, and garlic in a medium bowl; mash with the back of a fork or potato masher. Add cilantro (optional), and salt, and mix well to blend flavors. Cover and transfer to refrigerator. Serve cold. Makes 4 cups. After-School Snacks." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Almost any vegetable you can imagine is legal on this plan, with a single exception, for cardiac patients: avocados, which carry a high fat content unusual for vegetables. Those without heart disease can eat avocados as long as their blood lipid levels are not elevated. 2. Legumes. Beans, peas, and lentils of all kinds. This is a wide-ranging family of plants, and you are almost certain to discover delicious varieties you may never have encountered before embarking on this nutrition plan. 3. Whole grains." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Soybean oil, corn oil, avocados, and canola oil are rich in gamma-tocopherol. These foods naturally have a mixture of the various forms of tocopherols and tocotrienols, but always contain only the natural isomer of each. Foods Rich in Vitamin E (mg per 100 grams) Sunflower oil 59 Soybean oil 18 Sunflower seeds 50 Hazelnuts 15 Safflower oil 43 Olive oil 12 Almonds 26 Spinach, raw 2 Corn oil 21 Avocados 1 Canola oil 21 Whole wheat 1 Vitamin E is easily destroyed by heat and oxidation, as illustrated in Figure 5-6." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Avocados are also used as a substitute for spreads such as mayonnaise or margarine, and cubed avocados can be used in a salad instead of salad dressings. avocados were known as "testicle fruit" by ancient peoples in Central and South America and had a reputation as an aphrodisiac. However, there is no evidence that this good-tasting fruit has such extra powers over human behavior. Avocados are a significant crop in California, Florida, New Zealand, and South America. California, where avocados are extremely popular, produces large quantities annually." - David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., What Color is Your Diet? (Get the book.)

"Preparation time: 15 minutes 4 cups mesclun salad mix 2 cups spinach leaves 2 avocados, peeled, pitted, and diced !4 cup Imus Ranch Honey-Dijon Dressing (see below) 1 cup fresh raspberries 1 mango, peeled and diced !4 cup Mr. Martin's Maple-Glazed Pecans (see page 236) Combine the mesclun and spinach in a large bowl. Add the avocados and dressing and toss gently to combine. Transfer to a serving dish and top with the raspberries, mango, and pecans. Serve with additional dressing on the side, if you like. Makes 4 servings." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Avocados are also used as a substitute for spreads such as mayonnaise or margarine, and cubed avocados can be used in a salad instead of salad dressings. avocados were known as "testicle fruit" by ancient peoples in Central and South America and had a reputation as an aphrodisiac. However, there is no evidence that this good-tasting fruit has such extra powers over human behavior. Avocados are a significant crop in California, Florida, New Zealand, and South America. California, where avocados are extremely popular, produces large quantities annually." - David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., What Color is Your Diet? (Get the book.)

"While it is true that avocados are among the fruits with HEART DISEASE «M * G the highest fat content, recent research reports claim that subjects who ate a diet rich in avocados and olive oil had a drop in total cholesterol of more than 8% in less than two months. Of course, the olive oil may have contributed more to the cholesterol drop than the avocado, but remember: It's the tortilla chips that do more harm than the guacamole! Unblock Arteries Without Going Under the Knife Chelation is commonly used by conventional physicians to detoxify the body from lead or other mineral poisonings." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Raw hummus, avocados, tomatoes, and sprouts rolled in lettuce with condiments and spices (add sprouted nuts and seeds if you like). Instead of lettuce, you can substitute nori (a black seaweed), which comes in sheets. Brantley Let s Get Dicey. Grated carrots, beets, and raw corn with grated jicama and diced cilantro, olive oil, lemon, spices, and unrefined sea salt. If you want to add a protein, feel free. Eat with avocados and raw butter or raw coconut oil on sprouted crackers." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"Add the avocados and dressing and toss gently to combine. Transfer to a serving dish and top with the raspberries, mango, and pecans. Serve with additional dressing on the side, if you like. Makes 4 servings. Imus Ranch Honey-Dijon Dressing We use sunflower or safflower oil in many of our dressings because they are monounsaturated—meaning that they help to keep the arteries supple and lubricated—as well as being high in linoleic acid, an essential fatty acid that is one of the major building blocks of the immune system." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Other foods that contain high levels of sitosterol are avocados, grape leaves, olive oil, corn oil, lentils, and even baking chocolate. Nuts such as macadamia nuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, pecans, and almonds are also good sources of phytosterols. Wheat germ and sesame seeds contain the highest amounts of phytosterols (400 mg/100 gm of nuts), and pistachios and sunflower kernels have the next highest (280 mg/100 gm of nuts)." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Monounsaturated fats (olive oil, avocados, soy) should be limited to less than 15 percent of total calories. The intake of cholesterol should be less than 300 mg per day. Protein should be about 15 percent of total calories, and total calorie intake should be determined based on what amount would help to maintain normal body weight. The stricter Step 2 diet requires greater discipline and perhaps the guidance of a dietician/ nutritionist. Step 2 differs from Step 1 in that less than 7 percent of daily calories comes from saturated fats and cholesterol intake is limited to less than 200 mg." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"In addition, researchers found that avocados have nearly twice as much vitamin E as previously reported, making them the highest fruit source of this powerful antioxidant. avocados also contain four times more beta-sitosterol than any other fruit. Some studies have found that the avocado's beta-sitosterol content, combined with its monounsaturated fat content, helps to lower cholesterol levels. 121 n x > MEAL #3 of the day: LUNCH Vegetables + Starchs Have lunch between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"Guacamole 1 large tomato, seeded and chopped V* cup chopped white onion 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro 3 tablespoons minced red bell pepper 3 large avocados, pitted Vi teaspoon chili flakes 1 small serrano chili pepper, diced (2 tablespoons if canned and chopped) Pinch of salt Dash of ground pepper Combine all of the ingredients in a large bowl and mash to the desired consistency. Guacamole can be chunky or smooth. Black Bean Dip 1 cup cooked black beans '/2 cup tomato sauce or chopped fresh tomatoes !" - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"These are called "anachronisms" by Dan Janzen and Paul Martin, two scientists who hypothesize that such fruits are missing their Pleistocene partners. Even avocados, prickly pears and papayas used to be gulped down whole, seeds and all, by fridge-sized armadillos called glyptodonts. In southern Nepal, the horned rhinoceros's main source of food is the Trewia nudijlom fruit. The rhino eats it, and then excretes the seeds in marshy lands where they can grow into new plants. With the Indian rhino on the verge of extinction today, it's possible that the plant will also become an anachronism." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Green peppers, avocados, cucumbers, zucchinis, pumpkins, eggplants and corn are all technically fruits because they contain the plant's seeds. Olives are fruits. Sesame seeds come from sesame fruits. Those luffa sponges we use in the shower are fruits of the Luffa cylindrica tree. Vanilla is the fruit of a type of orchid. Roses turn into rosehips. Lilies become beadlike fruits. Poppy seeds come from fruit pods whose sap is full of morphine. We bite into and spit out the husk of sunflower fruits to get at sunflower seeds." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "We'll have a hundred types of weird fruit and tons of different types of avocado—but not the Hass avocados you get on the mainland. We don't even let the pigs eat those." Hawaii, he says, is the one place where you can travel to taste the world's most exotic fruits without facing exotic dangers such as having insects lay eggs in your back that hatch into squirming worms. After a few beers, Fleming starts telling ribald jokes. At one point, he asks me if I've ever heard of a Father Nelson. He then puts me in a full-Nelson headlock and starts humping me from behind." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Do not eat avocados. That includes guacamole! 11. Do not eat coconut. 12. Eat soy products cautiously. Many are highly processed and high in fat. Use "light" tofu. Avoid soy cheese, which almost always contains oil and casein. 13. Read The China Study, by T. Colin Campbell with Thomas M. Campbell II (BenBella Books). Keeping these rules in mind, the rest of the world of vegetables, legumes, and fruits is yours to enjoy, and it's a very rich world, as you will learn. A few words about salt: we do not use it." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Good fats are fish, extra virgin olive oil, olives, nuts, seeds, and avocados. Good carbs are beans, vegetables, whole grains, and fruit. Good proteins are legumes, soy, eggs, fish, nuts, and whole grains. Don't go low fat—consume olive oil, olives, nuts, seeds, and avocados. Eat every three hours—snack on nuts (one serving is a handful) and seeds such as almonds, walnuts, or pumpkin seeds (raw or dry-roasted only). Drink at least six to eight glasses of filtered water a day." - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"A small percentage of avocados consumed in the United States are imported from Mexico, Chile, and the Caribbean or come from the states of Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, and Texas, but California accounts for over ninety percent of all avocado consumption (and the Hass in particular) in America. A Serving of Food Lore... The avocado originated in south-central Mexico, sometime between 7000 and 5000 b.c. Archaeologists in Peru discovered avocado seeds buried in Incan tombs dating back to 750 b.c. It was thought that the seed of the avocado would offer aphrodisiac qualities in the afterlife." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "A to I jalapeno chopped directions: Cut the avocados in half. Remove pit and scoop the avocado flesh into a medium bowl. Mash the avocado with a large fork or potato masher. Meanwhile, rinse chopped onion to prevent it from overpowering the guacamole. Pat onion well with a paper towel to remove moisture. Stir it into the avocado along with the garlic, salt, pepper, and tomato. If not using immediately, cover with plastic wrap pressed directly on the surface of the guacamole and refrigerate—preferably for no more than a few hours." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "DIABETES: A randomized human study found that those diabetic subjects who consumed a high monounsaturated-fat diet, consisting mostly of avocados, had far better control of their blood glucose and triglycerides (elevated triglycerides contribute to heart disease) when compared with those subjects who consumed a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. 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 W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Ripe avocados should be kept in the refrigerator. • If the avocado is bought unripe, you can place the fruit in a paper bag until it is ripe or store it at room temperature for a few days. PREPARATION AND SERVING SUGGESTIONS: • Slice avocado lengthwise and twist to separate the two halves. To remove the pit, put a knife into the pit and twist. To remove the flesh, scoop it out with a spoon. • If the avocado is not used immediately, add some lemon or lime juice to it to prevent browning. • Place diced avocado in salads. • Slice and add to a sandwich or place on crackers with cheese." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"They also contain monounsaturated fat, similar to the olive, and provide a taste boost for other fruits and vegetables. avocados are also used as a substitute for spreads such as mayonnaise or margarine, and cubed avocados can be used in a salad instead of salad dressings. avocados were known as "testicle fruit" by ancient peoples in Central and South America and had a reputation as an aphrodisiac. However, there is no evidence that this good-tasting fruit has such extra powers over human behavior. Avocados are a significant crop in California, Florida, New Zealand, and South America." - David Heber, M.D., Ph.D., What Color is Your Diet? (Get the book.)

"Some high-fat foods like cream and avocados count as fat exchanges only, while regular cheese counts as a high-fat meat exchange, not as a milk exchange. Many vegetables are considered "free" foods rather than vegetables because they contain few calories per serving (e.g., salad greens, cabbage, cucumber, green beans, and carrots). A primary appeal of the exchange lists continues to be the flexibility offered to the health professional in planning macronutrient-controlled diets for patients." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"You can also eat up to two servings a day of apples and citrus fruits, as well as tomatoes and avocados, which are botanically fruits, and other "Friendly Fruits" listed on page 69. Continue to steer clear of all "Killer Fruits" (page 67), which tend to hail from the tropics, and fruit juice. (See Tropical Sugar Bombs on page 104.) As long as weight loss continues at a steady pound a week or you're already at your optimal weight, you can enjoy fruit in moderation. Overdo it and weight loss will halt or even reverse." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

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