What happens to your body when you eat avocado with eggs every morning
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Avocados and eggs are both nutritious foods in their own right. Their combination not only creates a tasty combination, but also provides you with healthy fats, proteins and essential micronutrients to support various aspects of your health.
1. Better heart health
The combination of avocado and eggs provides both healthy fats and high-quality protein, which may support heart health:
- Avocados contain monounsaturated fat, a type of healthy fat: Monounsaturated fats can help lower bad cholesterol levels, which can, in turn, reduce the risk of stroke and heart disease.
- Avocados have been linked to a lower risk of heart disease and coronary heart disease (CHD): One study found that eating two or more servings of avocado (1 serving = ½ avocado) per week is linked to a lower risk of heart disease and coronary heart disease. Replacing certain fatty foods with healthy unsaturated fats, such as avocado, has also been shown to reduce risk.
- The protein content of eggs and avocado may contribute to heart health: A heart-healthy diet consisting of a variety of proteins can reduce your risk of heart disease. Eggs are considered a high-quality protein because they contain all nine essential amino acids. Avocados also contain protein, more protein than any other fruit.
2. Stay full longer
The combination of avocado and eggs helps you feel full and stay full, thanks to their fiber and protein.
Avocados are a good source of fiber, which aids digestion and helps keep you full. An avocado contains almost 14 grams (g) of fiber.
The protein content in eggs also helps fill you up and fill you up by triggering greater production of hormones that signal that your body has eaten enough and lower levels of the hormone that signals hunger. A large egg contains around 6g of protein.
3. Improved brain function
Avocados and eggs contain nutrients that may support brain health and help slow cognitive decline:
- Avocados May Improve Cognitive Function: One study found that older adults who ate avocado in the 24 hours before a dietary survey performed better on cognitive tests, including memory tests. However, this study may not accurately reflect typical avocado consumption, so it’s unclear how much the avocado itself contributed to the scores.
- Eggs may protect women’s brain functions: One study found that older women who ate more eggs per week had lower declines in their semantic memory (long-term memory for general knowledge) and executive functions over four years. However, the difference was not observed in older men.
- Eggs can improve memory in men: Another study found that eating more eggs was linked to better performance on tests of total recall, short-term memory, and long-term memory in older men, but not in older women.
- Both contain brain-boosting nutrients: Avocados contain vitamin E, lutein, B vitamins, and monounsaturated vitamins, which may have contributed to the higher cognitive scores in the research. Eggs also contain other brain-boosting nutrients, including protein, amino acids, cholesterol, choline, and carotenoids (lutein and zeaxanthin).
Additional research is needed to better understand the effects of egg and avocado consumption on brain function and how individual factors, such as gender, may influence these effects.
4. Healthy skin and hair
The healthy fats and key vitamins in avocado and eggs can contribute to healthy skin and hair.
Avocados are rich in vitamin E, which promotes healthy skin. Vitamin E helps protect skin from sun damage from ultraviolet (UV) rays. The healthy fats in avocado also support skin health.
Eggs are an excellent source of biotin, generally considered beneficial for skin and hair health. However, experts have questioned the benefits of biotin for hair and skin health, noting that it may be beneficial for certain hair conditions but not for people with healthy hair or without biotin deficiency.
On the other hand, biotin is essential for the production of keratin, a protective protein that makes up the majority of skin, hair and nails, and helps maintain healthy skin and hair. Eating eggs can help increase your body’s keratin production.
5. Balanced blood sugar
The protein content in eggs, combined with the healthy fats and fiber in avocado, can help you feel full and stay that way longer. This is important for blood sugar management because not eating too much can lower blood sugar and improve insulin sensitivity.
However, while avocado consumption has been shown to help with blood sugar control in people with type 2 diabetes, more research is needed to understand whether egg consumption has any effect on blood sugar control.
6. Improved Nutrient Absorption
Eating avocado and eggs together can improve nutrient absorption. Egg yolks generally contain all the fat-soluble vitamins: A, D, E and K. These fat-soluble vitamins are better absorbed when consumed with dietary fat, such as from an avocado. By adding an avocado, you help your body absorb important nutrients from the egg.
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