The consumption of avocado brings a lot of nutritional properties because it’s a healthy fats food.
Its used to place it in your salads, in a wide variety of recipe, and even smoothies, snacks and beauty care.
Some of avocado the benefits are:
- . Promotes weight loss, this being a food rich in healthy fats, it offer greater satiety and anxiety control.
- . Regulates digestion: its fiber rich characteristic helps you to evacuate easier and regularly.
- . Keeps your heart healthy: as a higher content of oleic acid, contributes to lowering blood pressure and improves cholesterol levels in your body
- . Improves your brain power: the antioxidants such magnesium and lutein and other nutrients in avocado helps to prevent illnesses such as Parkinson´s and Alzheimer, and other memory related.
- . It has an important contribution of folic acid, which is vital in pregnancy in early stages of development of baby´s neural tube.
- . It diminishes the cramps and colic during pregnancy because its potassium content. You will notice if combine with some physical training.
- . It contributes to achieve the necessary calcium levels to supply the maternal / fetal needs.
- . Another of the benefits of consumption of avocado during pregnancy is that it contains carotenoids.
Schedule an appointments with our Nutrition Specialist for more recommendations about the nutritional needs your body require.
Lic. Ntr. David Mendoza Ortiz Head of the Nutrition Unit