Nutrition Resources

Nutrition Resources

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Healthy Avocado Hat Trick: Add Flavor and Nutrition to Your Burger

What’s Inside: Available also in Spanish, this fact sheet shows how adding avocado to a hamburger helps replace saturated fats with unsaturated fats, adds fiber and nutrients to your meal, and provides additional health benefits.

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Avocados, Dietary Quality, and Weight Maintenance Among Teens

What’s Inside: The Avocado Nutrition Center supported research to better understand avocado consumption among adolescents. Science shows eating avocados linked with better diet quality for teens.

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Using Fresh Avocados as a Culturally-appropriate Intervention to Improve Nutrition Status of Hispanic American Families

What’s Inside: Research supports support including fresh avocados in nutrition education to support weight management while reducing the overconsumption of saturated fat and sodium for Hispanic families.

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Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices: Daycare Provider Perspectives

What’s Inside: Available also in Spanish. The Avocado Nutrition Center (ANC) conducted a survey of daycare providers to better understand food purchasing behaviors and barriers to establishing healthier dietary patterns for young children.

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Podcast Series: Nutrition Science Insights: Behind the Scenes at the Avocado Nutrition Center – Dr. Nikki Ford

What’s Inside: Catch up with Melissa Joy Dobbins, MS, RDN, CDE, host of the Sound Bites® Podcast as she sits down with guest Dr. Nikki Ford to discuss her role as Senior Director of Nutrition at the Avocado Nutrition Center. Learn about Dr. Ford’s role directing the world’s only independent resource for comprehensive avocado nutrition research.

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Podcast Series: Empowering Latinos through Inclusive Nutrition Counseling

What’s Inside: Tune in as Melissa Joy Dobbins, MS, RDN, CDE, host of the Sound Bites® Podcast and guest Krista Linares, MPH, RDN discuss how to integrate cultural insights and satiety research to inspire healthy habits that can reduce risk factors for type 2 diabetes and obesity.

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Avocado Supports Better Diet Quality and Weight Management in an Australian Cohort

What’s Inside: Following a healthy eating pattern across the lifespan can help meet nutrient needs and achieve a healthy body weight. Science suggests avocados are associated with better diet quality and aid in weight management.

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Podcast Series: Smart Snacking for Heart Health

What’s Inside: Catch up with Melissa Joy Dobbins, MS, RDN, CDE, host of the Sound Bites® Podcast and guest Patricia Bannan, MS, RDN as they review research investigating the effect that eating fresh avocado has on cholesterol levels. Download the podcast for their lively discussion about the science and simple tips to help clients get heart health benefit from avocado-based snacks.

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Ace Afternoon Snacks with Avocados and Almonds

What’s Inside: Learn about the merits of foods that satisfy and nourish over snacks with empty calories that leave you hungry soon after eating.