The pear-shaped fruit is an excellent source of monounsaturated fatty acids, potassium, vitamin E, vitamin B, and fiber.
One of avocado fats is oleic acid. Oleic acid, the primary fat in avocados has been shown to offer significant protection against breast cancer. Women eating a diet rich in oleic acid have shown decreased rates of breast cancer. Oleic acid is also found in olives, olive oil, walnuts, almonds and pine nuts.
North Shore University Health System’s Breast Translational Research Program, it was found that the oleic acid in olive oil was able to kill cancer cells that had increased amounts of a certain oncogene responsible for about 30% of all breast cancers.
Avocados also contain glutathione, an antioxidant involved in cell protection from the noxious effect of excess oxidant stress. Avocados certain compounds in avocados are able to seek out pre-cancerous and cancerous oral cancer cells and destroy them without harming healthy cells. It also aids in digestion which helps in the absorption of food nutrients. Avocados are great for your heart, lowers risk of stroke, protects against muscular degeneration and cataracts.
Avocado also contain Persin which is a fungicidal toxin present in the avocado. It is generally harmless to humans, but when consumed by domestic animals in large quantities it is dangerous. It has been suggested as a treatment for breast cancer.
Avocados are good for your tossed salad or mixing it to your favorite salsa which would greatly increase your body’s ability to absorb the health-promoting carotenoids that vegetables provide.
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Avocado Research Links
Chemopreventive characteristics of avocado fruit. These studies suggest that individual and combinations of phytochemicals from the avocado fruit may offer an advantageous dietary strategy in cancer prevention.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17582784
Inhibition of prostate cancer cell growth by an avocado extract: role of lipid-soluble bioactive substances.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15629237
“As far as we know, this is the first study of avocados and oral cancer. We think these phytochemicals either stop the growth of precancerous cells in the body or they kill the precancerous cells without affecting normal cells. Our study focuses on oral cancer, but the findings might have implications for other types of cancer.”
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/avocados.htm
By studying the effects of persin on breast cancer cells grown in the laboratory, the scientists found that it selectively kills the cancerous cells by raising their levels of a ‘killer’ protein.
http://www.garvan.org.au/news-events/news-archive/2007/persin-the-avocado-toxin-that-kills-breast-cancer-cells.html
