Bar Food that's good for Your Heart
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 10 November 2011, 00:00 IST
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Adding sliced avocado to salad greens and vegetables makes their nutrients easier to absorb. Blood samples showed that when people added avocado to their salads or other food stuff, their body absorbed nearly 4.5 more times lycopene, a compound that may guard against some cancers; 5 times more lutein, which combats macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness; and up to 7 times more alpha-carotene and 15 times more beta-carotene, which together protect against heart disease and cancer.

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