When Israeli horticulturist Yossi Zaphrir first started experimenting with pitaya (aka dragon fruit) back in 1990, people often told him the flamboyant-looking fruit “tasted like wood.” Now, after decades of selective breeding, demand for his supersweet, purple-fleshed Bilu pitaya is so high that the 88-year-old has had to double production capabilities at his farm in […]
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High blood pressure symptoms – eating avocado can help lower hypertension
High blood pressure, also known as hypertension, affects more than one in four adults in the UK, but many won’t realise they have it. Heart disease, heart attacks, strokes and kidney disease are just a few of the potentially life-threatening conditions caused by high blood pressure. But there are a number of things you can […]
High blood pressure symptoms – eating avocado can help lower hypertension
HIGH blood pressure rarely has visible symptoms, but if it’s left untreated it can cause increased risk of heart attacks and strokes. The best way to reduce high blood pressure is to make healthy lifestyle changes – adding avocado into your diet can help lower your reading.
What I’d Do Differently: Otis the Avocado
– C/D: Many who were on staff back in 1989 claim they weren’t aware of the plan to photograph you in the seat of the Buick Reatta roadster for the cover. In fact, most of the staff was pretty embarrassed by the whole thing. – OtA: Look, there were certain, shall we say, arrangements. A-range-ments, okay? […]
Millennials Are Still Going to the Movies This Holiday Season, Enjoy Reclining Seats (and Avocado Toast)
Those dang millennials, let me tell you. As I’ve been told by numerous think-pieces, they’re killing off everything, checking their phones too much, and riding their roller blades all over the town. But here’s one old fashioned thing millennials are still interested in: going to the movies. At least during the current holiday season. A […]
Dry skin: Ditch THIS food for avocado to improve condition and make your skin glow
DRY SKIN could be treated by cutting out sugar and caffeine, and by eating more avocado and fish, according to a skin expert. Daily Express :: Health Feed
Avocado diet: Three ways the superfood can PREVENT heart disease
AVOCADOS have risen to superfood status thanks to their high nutrient content. Here are three ways eating them can help your heart. Daily Express :: Health Feed
‘Avocado hand’ injuries nothing to roll your eyes at, Calgary doctor says
If you thought deep frying a turkey was dangerous, try making a bowl of guacamole. Cutting avocados is causing serious hand injuries. “It’s a real thing and it can actually be pretty bad,” says Calgary doctor Raj Bhardwaj. CBC | Health News
Here’s how the avocado was marketed to confused Americans before it was popular
Tesco I have a confession to make: When I was a kid, I hated avocados. “Zaboca” as they are called in Trinidad (and maybe elsewhere in the Caribbean) were mushy and gross, in my young, uninformed opinion. They just didn’t taste like anything. Plus, I believed my parents ate some weird things in general. I […]
Iceland launches pre-sliced frozen avocado halves to combat fearful ‘avocado hand’
It’s been a stressful week for avocado lovers – first, there were rumblings of potential shortages, then came news of the ‘global epidemic’ that is ‘avocado hand’, which of course relates to instances where people are managing to injure themselves from either trying to remove the stone from the avocado, or slice one that is […]
