Weight Loss and Hunger
Apart from the obvious health benefits of getting more vitamins and
antioxidants out of the food you eat, the way avocados improve
nutrient absorption in a meal can also help reduce hunger.
This is due to the feeling of being hungry often associated, not with a
real need by our bodies for more food, but rather a couple of other
reasons which are a big part of why so many people find it so hard to
lose weight.
Firstly, many of us don’t drink nearly enough water, are regularly
mildly dehydrated, and end up mistaking hunger for thirst. Next time you
are hungry, try reaching for a glass of water, especially before having
any salt laden snack food which will only increase that dehydration.
At other times, particularly when you’ve had food a short time ago,
the feeling of hunger is your body’s way of trying to get more of the
nutrients it needs that weren’t provided in the last meal.
By eating more of nature’s healthiest foods, like avocados, Almonds and others on this site, you are much less likely to feel hungry again a short time after you’ve eaten.
In the case of avocados, with their rich and buttery taste, healthy
monounsaturated fats, high fibre content, good levels of protein
and particularly low carbohydrates, you have a food that significantly
increases satiety – that feeling of satisfied fullness after you eat.
Despite their calories and fat content, avocados ability to increase
the nutrition you receive from a meal and satisfy your hunger results in
most people actually eating less when they add them to their diet. In
this way, the avocado can be viewed, not as something to be avoided by
dieters, but rather as an effective weight loss food when added to a
healthy eating plan.
In comparison, having high carbohydrate meals based around foods like bread, potatoes, corn, rice and pasta will usually increase hunger significantly by the effect it has on the insulin levels in your blood.