Eating this one fruit every day leads to better sleep, heart health: new research
A daily avocado helps ward against illness.
Eating one avocado per day has been linked to several health benefits, such as better sleep and food quality, according to recent studies.
According to previous research, eating avocados is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, as Dr. Janhavi J. Damani, a postdoctoral scientist at Penn State University, stated to Healio.
According to Damani, the research expands on previous studies that looked at the health benefits of avocados and suggests that they can “improve cardiovascular risk factors by reducing total cholesterol and LDL-C without adversely affecting body weight.” It was recently presented at the Nutrition 2024 conference in Chicago.
In order to perform the current study, the research team analyzed data from the Habitual Diet and Avocado Trial (HAT), a group of over 1,000 participants who were randomly assigned to consume one avocado daily for six months or stick to a regular diet but consume less than two avocados per month.
Healio claims that Damani’s team evaluated the effect of daily avocado eating on the heart health of individuals with abdominal obesity.
The team assessed a sample of 969 individuals from HAT for diet quality, blood glucose, blood pressure, BMI, blood lipids, physical activity, and sleep health, all of which are related to cardiovascular health, using the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 guidelines.
According to their findings, people who stuck to their routines and avoided eating avocados saw a decline in their cardiovascular health ratings; however, Damani informed Healio that “the avocado-supplemented group did not observe this trend.”
The groups’ LE8 scores did not significantly differ from one another, but those who regularly ate avocados reported better sleep, a healthier diet, and lower blood lipids, such as cholesterol.
“To achieve clinically relevant improvements in cardiovascular risk factors, there is a drive toward adapting healthy dietary patterns rather than just incorporating individual foods,” according to an expanding body of research, according to Damani.
The Hass Avocado Board provided funding for the study, which may inspire more investigation into the “complex associations” between particular foods and cardiovascular health.
She advised doctors to “place more emphasis in increasing diet quality through beneficial changes in the overall dietary pattern” in the interim, she told Healio.
