The new study conducted by a team of scientists from Iran analyzing 129 research about the benefits of avocado consumption in the components of metabolic syndrome.
Metabolic syndrome is a term used to describe a combination of three or more risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, which is high blood pressure, high triglycerides, and waist width.
The research team concluded that the avocado is beneficial in terms of cholesterol levels. Regularly eat these fruits can reduce bad cholesterol, triglycerides, and total cholesterol. In addition it also increases levels of good cholesterol.
"The effects of reducing blood fat, antidiabetic, antiobesity, antithrombotic, and protection of the heart, are also found in some studies," the researchers said in a report in the journal Phytotherapy Research.
The results of this study reinforces the status of the avocado as a super fruit.
