How Does Avocado Affect Metabolism?

Despite its bad reputation, avocado is a very beneficial fruit for our body, which helps us to feel satiety while stimulating our digestion.

Avocado is a food that we tend to avoid during slimming diets, because of its high caloric value.

However, be aware that this fruit contains a lot of healthy calories, which do not make you fat.

It is a satiating food, which contains a lot of protein, and which can perfectly replace animal proteins.

It is therefore an option more than recommended to lose weight, and take care of your health.

If we lead a healthy lifestyle and reduce our intake of saturated fat, consuming one avocado per day is a great habit.

In this article, we’ll tell you why.

Avocado speeds up metabolism

This green fruit with a velvety and delicious taste, helps to accelerate our metabolism, which allows to burn fat.

Consuming one avocado per day can provide you with between 15 and 20 grams of fat.

These fats will help you in all the internal processes that take care of health during the slimming diet.

• An avocado a day fills you up.
• It provides you with monounsaturated fats or omega-3 oleic acid, essential for your heart. 
• It is an excellent anti-inflammatory.
• It balances your cholesterol.
• Avocado can replace animal protein, and therefore helps prevent dangerous fat that in the long run affects the heart.

It takes care of your digestion and promotes the absorption of nutrients

Don’t hesitate to include a serving of avocado in your salads, along with tomatoes and spinach.

This food will allow you to benefit from a good digestion and will help you to take care of your intestinal health.

• You will avoid constipation and water retention. 
• Cleaner intestines make it easier for nutrients to get into the blood stream.
• One daily avocado provides you with 18 amino acids, which are excellent for liver health.

Avocado strengthens your immune system

We should never forget the importance of vitamin foods in our diet, as they strengthen our defenses and provide us with energy.

Avocados are an excellent example given their nutritional richness: Vitamins A, C, D, E, B-6, B12 and K, folic acid, retinol, beta-carotenes …

In addition, avocado acts as a nutrient accelerator, that is to say that thanks to it, we more easily absorb the nutrients from the food we ingest.

Avocado acts as an anti-inflammatory

Thanks to its omega-3 oleic acid, avocado has anti-inflammatory properties.

In addition, its nutrients and metabolic enzymes help us fight against water retention but also in all the following processes:

• Joint pain.
• Rheumatic diseases.
• Inflammation of the liver.

Avocado is good for diabetics

If you have diabetes, you can consume avocado without any problems, as it helps control blood sugar levels.

The most important thing will be to avoid combining avocados with foods that contain carbohydrates (such as certain fruits), to prevent the sugar from getting into the blood.

Thus, in cases of diabetes or obesity, avocado can be a good ally in taking care of our health, as long as we accompany it with healthy habits.

Ways to consume avocado to take care of our metabolism

Celery, avocado, tomato, onion and mozzarella salad

Ingredients

• ½ avocado
• 5 cherry tomatoes
• 1 celery
• A little mozzarella
• A little chopped onion
• The juice of half a lemon
• Balsamic vinegar

Preparation

• Start by washing and cutting into pieces the celery and cherry tomatoes. Then cut the avocado into small cubes.
• In the salad bowl, put the avocado, celery, chopped onion, cherry tomatoes, and mozzarella according to your tastes.
• To finish, season with a little lemon juice and balsamic vinegar. This is delicious !

The green protein-rich smoothie

Ingredients

• ½ avocado
• ½ apple
• 10 spinach leaves
• A banana
• 1 glass of rice drink (200 ml)

Preparation

This green smoothie can be served for dinner, and even for breakfast. It has multiple vitamins, minerals and especially proteins.

It will allow you to control your weight and help you feel full and cleansed.

• First, peel the avocado and cut it in half. Do the same with the apple, remembering to remove the core.
• Clean the spinach and put them in the blender with the banana, half apple and half avocado.
• Adding rice water will make the smoothie all the healthier.
  Indeed, rice water is very nutritious, satiating, ideal for good digestion and it enhances the taste of other foods.
• Put everything in your food processor and obtain a smoothie that is very homogeneous, without lumps.
  Thanks to this smoothie, you will feel much better and you will have enough energy to start your day.

Don’t hesitate to give it a try!