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Avocados are the biggest thing since flare jeans. There’s new restaurants opening using avocado as its main ingredient. There’s millions of photos on Instagram of avocado toast. There’s even avocado ice cream. And all of this is for good reason. This fruit is packed with nutrients and healthy fat, which touts numerous benefits, from the inside, out.
According to the USDA National Nutrient Database, one serving of an Avocado contains:
They are great sources of fiber, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, folate, beta carotene, omega-3 fatty acids, lutein & zeaxanthin, and Vitamin K1. The fat that avocados are made of are healthy and beneficial, keeping you full and satiated.
The benefits of avocados range from heart to vision and bone health. Studies have shown regular consumption of beta-sitosterol and other plant sterols have been seen to help maintain healthy cholesterol levels. Avocados also contain lutein and zeaxanthin, two phytochemicals that are especially concentrated in your eyes to provide antioxidant protection. And, because Avocados provided about 25% of your daily recommended intake of Vitamin K, it plays an important role for bone health. While Vitamin K is often overshadowed by calcium and vitamin D, it is actually just as important, supporting bone health by increasing calcium absorption and reducing the excretion of calcium. Eat up!
Not only do we see avocado on toast and in numerous recipes, but it is also in many skin and hair care products. The same fats that are great for your body can also help you achieve maximum skin and hair health. Avocado oils and butters are now staples in hair care products, especially hair masks.
Hair care masks with avocado have been shown to provide your hair with that healthy glow you’ve been looking for. It’s perfect after the winter months that leave you with dull hair and dry ends. A superior Hair Repair Treatment Mask will provide more than Avocado! Look for other ingredients like Shea Butter, Olive Oil and Vitamin E to protect your hair, nourish your scalp, and revive over-processed, damaged hair.
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Being physically fit is known to contribute to a host of healthy benefits, including staving off metabolic diseases and protecting against heart disease. Now, a new study says that being physically fit can highly decrease a women’s risk of dementia.
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, Dementia is the general term for a decline in mental ability that is severe enough to impact every day life. Memory loss, for example, is one of the symptoms. Alzheimer’s Disease is the most common type of dementia.
Symptoms of Dementia include significantly impaired memory, communication and language, ability to focus, reasoning and judgement, and visual perception. Dementia occurs when there is damage to the brains cells. “This damage interferes with the ability of the brain cells to communicate with each other. When brain cells cannot communicate normally, thinking, behavior and feelings can be affected”, reports the Alzehimer’s Associations website.
“At least 1 in 20 people with dementia developed it an age younger than 65. It is estimated that dementia affects one in 14 people over 65 and one is six over 80. Women are more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease, but for most other dementia’s, men and women have much the same risk. There is some evidence that people from certain ethnic communities are high risk of dementia than others, including South Asians, African or African-Caribbean”, reports The Alzheimer’s Society.
A new study from the University of Gothernburg in Sweden has now found that women who are very physically fit in middle age have an almost 90% decreased risk of being diagnosed with dementia later in life, unlike their moderately fit peers, who are more exposed to this condition. The results of this study are published in the journal Neurology.
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For the purpose of this study, the researchers worked with 191 women, aged 50 (on average). The participants’ cardiovascular fitness, or their ability to sustain physical effort over a prolonged period, was assessed through a bicycle exercise test. The research team asked the women to participate in the exercise until they felt physically exhausted; this allowed the researchers to establish what each participant’s peak cardiovascular capacity was. Peak capacity is defines as “the maximum ability of the cardiovascular system to deliver oxygen to exercising skeletal muscle and of the exercising muscle to extract oxygen from the blood.” Of the women who scored highly fit, only 5% were diagnosed in the follow up period of 44 years after the study. Twenty-five percent of the moderately fit participants and 32% of the women who low physical fitness levels developed the disease.