Avocado, Fruit Healthy Rich Benefits

Avocado is a miracle fruit. Not just because it tastes good and can be a beverage or food ingredient, but also because of its health benefits are many.

"Avocado is much more useful than you think over the years," Aaron Goldfarb Fix.com health writer.

Avocados contain more potassium than bananas, ie 975 milligrams apiece medium size. While the medium-size banana 'only' contains approximately 487 milligrams of potassium.

Potassium is an electrolyte that is essential for hydration of the body, is also believed to lower blood pressure and maintain normal function of the brain and nerves.

In addition, potassium can counteract the side effects of excess sodium (salt), which is one risk factor for heart disease.

Avocado Create Fertile Women

If you are a young couple who are trying to get pregnant, are advised to pay more attention to nutrition and food intake. With nutrient intake and good nutrition, fertility will increase. Opportunity to gain even greater pregnancy.

One of the recommendations to be considered in improving fertility, especially in women, is to eat an avocado. Research has shown that the consumption of salad with avocado and olive oil mixture can help women obtain offspring. This applies especially to those who were undergoing IVF or in-vitro fertilization (IVF).

Avocado Oil In Aging

The findings showed scientists in Mexico, the avocado has the potential to be a natural weapon against the aging process and chronic diseases. Oil contained in fruits are proven to fight harmful free radicals, or molecules which allegedly responsible for causing the aging process, heart disease and cancer.

Said the researchers, who made a special avocado oil content which is specifically able to penetrate into the mitochondria, an important part of the functioning of body cells convert food into energy. Many antioxidants contained in fruits and vegetables such as carrots or tomatoes are also able to block the free radicals - but unable to penetrate into the mitochondria.

Chilean avocado Fight Antibiotic Resistance

Antibiotic resistance or drug-resistant bacteria is a health problem now faced by the medical world. Hope of solving this problem falls to the avocado fruit from Chile.

In a study published in the Journal of Microbial Chemotherapy is shown that the content in Chilean avocado able to resist the mechanisms of resistance of Staphylococcus aureus (also called staph infeksek).

Staph infection that is known as a type of bacterial infection that most often experienced by people after surgery. The impact of serious bacterial infections, ranging from sepsis to food poisoning.

Natural Medicine Of Fruits In Around Us

Today's modern lifestyle affects many people everyday lifestyle Indonesia. One is the consumption of fast food or junk food. In this post I will describe the properties of fruits that may have been left behind by most of our society berungsi as natural medicines or traditional medicines: Apples, Avocado and Banana

Avocado Leaves For Antihypertensive

Disease of high blood pressure becomes silent killer after causing malfunctioning of the heart, kidneys, cognitive, and stroke. Lecturer and researcher Department of Pharmacy Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Indonesia, Azizahwati, diversifying antihypertensive drug dosage form of herbal capsules avocado leaves.

Azizahwati Wednesday (15 / 6), presented the Final Report of Research Grant, University of Indonesia (UI) in 2010 at UI, Depok, West Java. He researched pengapsulan avocado leaf extract (Persea americana Mill) with a team from the Department of Pharmacology Faculty of Medicine, UI, ie H Purwaningsih Erni, Endang Hanani, and Sutriyo. They obtained the UI research grants in 2010 amounted to Rp 164.8 million.

According to the Head of Sub-Directorate of Research and Industry Incubator Yasman UI, UI research grant from the Community Fund Programme taken from the operational costs of education (BOP) submitted by each student enrolled. Year 2010 is available grants for 199 research activities.

Categories of activities include initial research, graduate, seeded, and multidisciplinary. Large fund of Rp 40 million (preliminary research) to Rp 175 million (multidisciplinary research). "The principal investigator is required from the UI," said Yasman.

Yasman acknowledged, research is done largely to satisfy the curiosity of the professors or researchers, so the percentage of research results that can be applied to society and industry is still relatively small. However, the team Azizahwati prove they are fairly applied research to provide an alternative packaging and herbal medicinal products.

Fruits Needed to Protect Heart

Lack of potassium in the blood (hypokalemia) can cause heart problems. In addition to contraction of the muscles of the body, potassium is also serves as an introduction to electricity persyarafan entire body. Adequate potassium in the body to function as acid-base balance of the body.


Disturbance of this balance would disrupt overall body condition. This imbalance is more worrisome when it disrupt cardiac function resulting in heart rhythm disorders.


To prevent this, meet the needs of body potassium. Potassium can be obtained from skim milk, burgers, meat, and tomatoes. However, the largest intake of potassium can be obtained from fruits.