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5 Awesome Ways to Eat Avocados — and Cut Your Cholesterol
It’s amazing what you can do with an avocado. And what an avocado can do for you.
This buttery-tasting fruit slashed the bad cholesterol in obese and overweight individuals, found a small study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Doctors placed all participants on three healthy diets to lower cholesterol. While all three diets reduced cholesterol, the participants who ate a Haas avocado daily reaped the biggest benefits. And if you lower your cholesterol, you cut your risk of having a stroke.
Conquer 6 ailments with this one wonder spice!
It’s peppery and a little sweet. It’s fragrant and it’s spicy. It’s also gnarly and bumpy. But the root of the ginger plant adds such a special flavor to stir-fries, fruits, and vegetables, no one cares what it looks like. Add in the proven health benefits of this wonder spice and you've hit a homerun!
- FC&A Staff Writer
- Tags: Allergies Arthritis Diabetes & High Blood Pressure Health & Healing Healthy Recipes Heartburn Muscle aches & pain Nausea
Dark-roasted decaf coffee eases heartburn
You enjoy drinking coffee, but not the heartburn that follows. Switching to a dark-roasted coffee could help. Researchers discovered that dark-roasted coffee contains a compound that helps reduce stomach acid. Called N-methylpyridinium (NMP), this compound is generated only with roasting. So dark-roasted coffee contains more of it — up to twice as much as light-roasted varieties.
- FC&A Staff Writer
- Tags: Digestion Health & Healing Heartburn
Hiatal hernia — How to handle the hidden cause of heartburn
You have a 60-percent chance of having a hiatal hernia if you’re over age 60. The good news is, even if you have a hiatal hernia — no matter what your age — it’s probably not a problem. You may not even know you have one. That’s because most hiatal hernias are small and don’t cause any symptoms.
- FC&A Staff Writer
- Tags: Diabetes & High Blood Pressure Health & Healing Heartburn
