Are avocados good for me?

Here is another of my comments on a post about avocados at Jimmy Moore’s

Jimmy Moore wrote:

Are avocados good for me?: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/heal…cle7524624 ~ Do we REALLY have to ask this question about a real food like avocados? Unfortunately in this fat-phobic culture we live in these days, yes we do and it’s indicative of the mountain of work that’s still in front of us to convince people that dietary fat (especially from whole food sources) is NOT the problem. I credit the registered dietitian for answering this question well except for her dig at butter and promotion of “whole grain toast” towards the end. Is there a mandate that fat be demonized and grains heralded in the RD manual or what?

My comment:

I absolutely love avocados. Many years ago I was staying in a small chalet in the garden of a friend’s house. The gardener has planted something like 35 years beforehand and all around the chalet there were 12 different varieties of avocado, each one fruiting to maturity at a different time of the year so you virtually have avocados all year round.

Everyday for breakfast along with cottage cheese we used to have an avocado salad that was simply the pulp of 2 fresh avocados cut into small cubes, mixed in with finely chopped onion and dressed with a little lemon juice, salt and pepper. The secret was to leave it for about 20 minutes so all the flavors exchange before you eat it. It was absolutely delicious in fact thinking about it now makes me want to go and make something just like that.

Incidentally the owner of that garden lived well into his 90s and strangely enough he had avocados virtually every day.

Definitely a food for thought.

Mark