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    Healthy Fats

    Posts: 25 Member
    edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
    I ❤️ avocados. If I eat one per day is this unhealthy?!

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    • Posts: 1,998 Member
      I doubt it.
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    • Posts: 14,464 Member
      Eat what you love. You’ll be fine.
    • Posts: 1,406 Member
      It's one of my go to breakfasts. On toast. I don't eat it every day because it's tough to always have one perfectly ripe, but I eat them 3-4 mornings a week.
    • Posts: 5,132 Member
      Only if it puts you over your calorie goal or causes you to not have room for sufficient protein or other nutrients in your diet.

      When it comes to food, try thinking of it as “I need to get enough of the right nutrients to be healthy while not exceeding my calorie goal.”
      It seems you’re more in the habit of approaching it as “I hope it’s not bad for me to eat this.”
      Nutrition isn’t about certain foods being “bad” for you. Nutrition is about getting all the nutrients you need.
      An avocado won’t hurt you. Failing to get enough protein because you only eat avocados could.
    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      Why would it be?

      I was just joking yesterday about how I wasn't having avocado at lunch as I had at breakfast and lately I feel like I might be on an avocado-based diet, which isn't great for calories (and while avocados are nutritious I think variety is good), but if you are currently enjoying having an avocado a day and it fits into your calories, that's not something to worry about.

      I'm currently having half of one every morning and sometimes have the second half later that day.
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    • Posts: 3,997 Member
      Avocados are pretty expensive these days. I seldom buy them for this reason.

      There are a lot of cheaper sources for healthy fat like ground flax seed. No need to limit the source to just avocados.
    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      Avocados are tastier than ground flax seed, however.
    • Posts: 3,997 Member
      edited December 2017
      lemurcat12 wrote: »
      Avocados are tastier than ground flax seed, however.

      Just mix it in w/something else and you don't even know it's there.

      But if ground flax seed doesn't work for you, just try something else.

      The point was that avocados are NOT the only source for healthy fats.
    • Posts: 30,886 Member
      sgt1372 wrote: »
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      Just mix it in w/something else and you don't even know it's there.

      But why would I eat lots of calories without knowing it's there? The omega 3s that most have trouble getting enough are DHA and EPA, which isn't in flax seed (which has ALA). Flax seed is fine for you, but I'm never short on fat (in part because I love avocado, olives, nuts and some seeds, so on, and when I'm eating meat, I adore fatty fish too).
      The point was that avocados are NOT the only source for healthy fats.

      Oh, yes, I agree with you on that, but I don't think OP was confused on that point. She just seems to enjoy avocados.
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