Avocado salad with strawberries

Avocado salad with strawberries

Avocado Salad with Strawberries

RECIPE INGREDIENTS

• Ground black pepper 5g
• Salt5g Fresh avocado  200g
• Fresh strawberries 100g
• Fresh sweet red pepper 100g
• Lettuce leaves 100g
• Fresh lemon juice 50g

PREPARATION 

• Remove seeds and the stalk from Peppers, cut into cubes
• Cut Lettuce into strips.
• Clean Avocado, cut into half, remove seeds, cut into slices half.
• Cut Strawberries into 4 pieces
• Mix lemon juice with salt and pepper
• Put Avocados, strawberries and sweet pepper into bowl, mix with lemon juce again, Sprinkle salt and pepper.
• Lay on a dish lettuce, then the prepared mixture and serve immediately.

Strawberries, anti-cholesterol food

And if the regime had strawberries replace statins as a treatment against your cholesterol? The hypothesis is not unfounded if one believes the experiment conducted jointly by Italian and Spanish researchers.

Strawberries, anti-cholesterol food

Should we add strawberries to the list of superfoods (cranberry, pomegranate, acai, currants ...) to multiple health benefits? Eating strawberries daily could indeed greatly lower cholesterol. Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Marche in Italy, and colleagues from the universities of Salamanca, Granada and Seville in Spain, made this discovery by observing the impact of this "strawberry diet" of 23 volunteers. The panel of strawberries consumed 500 per day for a month. A blood test was taken at the beginning and the end of the experiment.

The results published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry show that diet decreased the level of bad cholesterol (LDL) cholesterol by 14%. The level of good cholesterol did not change him. However, the amount of triglycerides decreased by 21%. In excess, these lipids increase the risk of atherosclerotic plaque, that is to say, the lipid deposition within the arteries.

Other parameters also improved as the concentration of antioxidant biomarkers such as vitamin C and the changes plaquettaire. Ces function returned to normal within 15 days after stopping the "treatment".

Other cholesterol-lowering foods

Difficult to determine exactly which compounds present in strawberries can explain these cholesterol-lowering benefits. Maurizio Battino, Italian researcher director of the study hypothesizes. "All the signs and epidemiological studies converge on strawberry anthocyanins, plant pigments responsible for the red color."

Strawberries so join the base anti-cholesterol foods . Meanwhile the strawberry season, you can enjoy for example apples, oat bran, sardines, mackerel, walnuts and peppers.

Strawberries Reduce risk of heart attack

That Researchers from Harvard in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

The researchers looked at data from 93,600 women aged 25-42 years. They filled for 18 years every four years in a questionnaire about their eating habits.

During the study, 405 participants a heart attack . The women who ate the most blueberries and strawberries, were 32 percent lower risk of heart attack than women who ate berries at most once a month. 

The researchers adjusted for factors that could skew the results such as age, hypertension, BMI, exercise, smoking, alcohol consumption and the incidence of heart attacks in the family.

 Flavonoids

 Blueberries and strawberries, but also grapes, eggplant and other fruits and vegetables, contain many flavonoids. The researchers specifically looked blueberries and strawberries, because they are much eaten in the United States. A particular variant of flavonoids, anthocyanidin, has a beneficial effect on the heart and blood vessels. They dilate the veins and may prevent the formation of fatty deposits in the arteries (plaque).