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Learn how adding avocado to your hamburger helps replace saturated fats with unsaturated fats, adds fiber and nutrients to your meal, and provides additional health benefits.
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The Avocado Nutrition Center supported research to better understand avocado consumption among adolescents. Compared to non-consumers, avocado-consuming teens had higher scores for diet quality, variety, and adequacy.
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Research supports 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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The Avocado Nutrition Center (ANC) conducted a survey to better understand food purchasing behaviors and barriers of daycare providers. Survey findings reveal that avocados meet daycare center providers’ key criteria for selecting foods that deliver on desired nutrition, health, and well-being benefits, as well as taste and texture attributes.
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. Get briefed on published and pending peer-reviewed research and all the steps that go into growing the body of evidence supporting the many ways fresh avocados may promote human health.
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Empowering Latinos through Inclusive Nutrition CounselingAs Latinos are among the fastest growing population in the United States, many health professionals are seeking a better understanding of the complex role culture can have on their relationship with food.
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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Following a healthy eating pattern across the lifespan can help meet nutrient needs and achieve a healthy body weight. Download this fact sheet to learn more about how avocados can fit into your client’s healthy eating pattern.
Smart Snacking for Heart HealthCatch 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.
Research featured in this episode is a systematic review and meta-analysis published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (April 2018) that compared cholesterol levels between avocado-inclusive diets and avocado-free diets across multiple studies.
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This delicious duo may just be the snack hack you’ve been looking for. Try creative pairings like fresh avocados and almonds that can help fuel your body with energy, provide a boost of essential nutrients and successfully keep hunger at bay between meals.
