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What's so great about avocado, anyway?

Posts: 162 Member
edited February 2 in Food and Nutrition
When I was little, I loved to eat guacamole. That's really the only thing I can ever remember eating with avocado in it... Around the time I was 10 I was getting an upset stomach after eating it but I didn't care because it tasted so good. By 13 I would get the absolute worst stomach cramps (curled in a ball crying cramps), horrible headaches and just a general feeling of "please, God, just let me die now." It was so bad that if someone snuck it into a food and I found out before the symptoms started, I would try to make myself throw up and I HATE, HATE, HATE throwing up. Also, for anyone who is interested, I saw a nutritionist and she said the most common cause of an avocado allergy is a latex allergy... which is true for me :/

So anyway, it seems like everyone says "EAT AVOCADO!" I know they have healthy fats, but is that the only reason? If there is some other thing in it that is essential to good health or weight loss that I don't know about? I kind of feel like I'm missing out! :)

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  • Posts: 4,298 Member
    You're not.

    Avocados have healthy fats, antioxidants, are satiating, yada, yada, but nothing you can't get from other foods. Other than the taste, of course.
  • Posts: 15,357 Member
    They taste good? Obviously, not so much for you, but you're not missing out on anything life changing just because you can't stomach them...
  • Posts: 4,710 Member
    If I could prove that they were the most amazing food known to man, would you start eating them again?
  • Posts: 493 Member
    It' fricken delicious, that's what.
  • Posts: 68 Member
    For people who have a hard time getting potassium, they are a good source. Probably not worth the severe cramping for you.
  • Posts: 611 Member
    I've never liked avocado. You're not missing anything. Yes, it's "good" fat, but it's also high in calories. Eat some nuts if you want some good fat.

    Sorry about your latex allergy, no fun.
  • Posts: 1,508 Member
    Guacamole is what's so great about them.
  • Posts: 384 Member
    For people who have a hard time getting potassium, they are a good source. Probably not worth the severe cramping for you.

    Chicken breast and tomato paste are two of the best sources I know of. Lots of people don't seem to know that.
  • Posts: 469 Member
    Because the taste freakin' delicious, but nothing is magically about them if your stomach cannot handle them don't eat them .
  • Posts: 4,710 Member

    Chicken breast and tomato paste are two of the best sources I know of. Lots of people don't seem to know that.

    Kazakhstan, number one exporter of potassium
  • Posts: 162 Member
    If I could prove that they were the most amazing food known to man, would you start eating them again?

    About that, I meant to post "If so, is there anything that I could eat that would simulate the effects (or affects...?) of avocado's nutrients/health benefits? :)"

    Thanks for the responses
  • Posts: 1,206 Member
    I eat avocado because guacamole is one of the greatest things ever.
  • Posts: 849 Member
    What's so great about avacado?! :noway: :noway: :noway:
  • Posts: 929 Member
    It gives me a SEMI
  • It's also another carryover from the current Paleo trend. Same with the current trend of eating a pound of bacon in a sitting or cooking everything in an inch of saturated fat.

    The thing is that a paleo diet is no good for people who aren't doing the kind of exercise that actually uses the caloric intake paleo suggests. That's why most crossfitters swear by paleo; it fuels their workouts. But will it work for a distance runner? Not really, no.

    Cherry picking items out of a paleo diet is gonna become pretty dangerous sooner or later, if it hasn't already.
  • Posts: 8,138 Member
    I don't like it, either.
  • Posts: 1,508 Member
    It's also another carryover from the current Paleo trend. Same with the current trend of eating a pound of bacon in a sitting or cooking everything in an inch of saturated fat.

    The thing is that a paleo diet is no good for people who aren't doing the kind of exercise that actually uses the caloric intake paleo suggests. That's why most crossfitters swear by paleo; it fuels their workouts. But will it work for a distance runner? Not really, no.

    Cherry picking items out of a paleo diet is gonna become pretty dangerous sooner or later, if it hasn't already.
    *snort*
    So if I'm not Paleo, I should stay away from bacon and avocado?
  • Posts: 6,998 Member
    They're very good for you, and many people find them delicious.

    But if you don't/can't eat them, you'll just get nutrients elsewhere. It's like if you couldn't eat carrots. Well, you'd just eat something else.
  • Posts: 6,490 Member
    They're magic. I'm sorry that you're missing out on this super food.

    You can always eat more quinoa and flax seed and wash them down with wheat grass or coconut oil shots.
  • Posts: 317 Member
    They're just awesome balls of awesomeness.
  • Posts: 233 Member
    Oh man, I could care less about it being healthy. I love freaking LOVE guacamole. Just wanna roll around in it.
  • Posts: 233 Member
    I eat avocado because guacamole is one of the greatest things ever.
    Yes. Yes! YES!!!
  • Posts: 162 Member
    Oh man, I could care less about it being healthy. I love freaking LOVE guacamole. Just wanna roll around in it.

    That's what I remember of it!

    But now even seeing the green coming on a plate of Mexican food at a restaurant (even if I say to hold it, which happens 80% of the time) I almost get paralyzed with fear for a second. Then I realize it's just food and it can only hurt me in my mouth :)
  • Posts: 4,585 Member
    It's also another carryover from the current Paleo trend. Same with the current trend of eating a pound of bacon in a sitting or cooking everything in an inch of saturated fat.

    The thing is that a paleo diet is no good for people who aren't doing the kind of exercise that actually uses the caloric intake paleo suggests. That's why most crossfitters swear by paleo; it fuels their workouts. But will it work for a distance runner? Not really, no.

    Cherry picking items out of a paleo diet is gonna become pretty dangerous sooner or later, if it hasn't already.

    Huh?
  • Posts: 1,676 Member

    It's also another carryover from the current Paleo trend. Same with the current trend of eating a pound of bacon in a sitting or cooking everything in an inch of saturated fat.

    The thing is that a paleo diet is no good for people who aren't doing the kind of exercise that actually uses the caloric intake paleo suggests. That's why most crossfitters swear by paleo; it fuels their workouts. But will it work for a distance runner? Not really, no.

    Cherry picking items out of a paleo diet is gonna become pretty dangerous sooner or later, if it hasn't already.

    What if you ate those things before paleo? because I totally ate them like that before paleo even became popular.
  • Posts: 542 Member
    MMMMM! Sorry OP but Avocado and Bacon are two of my favourites. Love both.....
  • They taste and feel like slimy soap to me. Gag.
  • Posts: 4,966 Member
    I only eat avocado because apparently that is what guacamole is and guacamole is awesome.Other than that, if you wanted to simulate the effects of guacamole, you could substitue nacho cheese, ranch dip, salsa, french onion...
  • Posts: 4,966 Member
    What if you ate those things before paleo? because I totally ate them like that before paleo even became popular.

    How are you even still alive?
  • Posts: 3 Member
    Wocamolay.....inside joke for stern fans
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