AVOCADOS

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Permalink Reply by ednshell on February 26, 2012 at 6:34am

1/2 of an avocado should be fine if you are eating enough fruit calories.  Sounds like you need to increase your fruit and you'll be down to 10% or less of fat.

Permalink Reply by Jem on February 26, 2012 at 6:39am

Ok great Thank you! I am still working on increasing my fruit calorie intake. I am going to try the Dateorade! So excited!:)

Permalink Reply by Maya Papaya on February 26, 2012 at 7:13am

yup...also, I like to make a dressing with about 3 oranges and 1 tablespoon of raw tahini to make a nice dressing over a pound of greens, celery (nice salt alternative) and tomatoes or whatever else you like in your salad. Try dropping the salt from your diet - somehow salt seems to be associated with avocados.

Permalink Reply by Jem on February 26, 2012 at 7:16am

Yum! I will try that thank you!:)

Permalink Reply by Linda on February 26, 2012 at 6:35am

A little avocado is fine now and then, but, yeah, you'll probably end up eating too much fat if you have that every day.

Try a dressing blended from 4 or 5 dates plus a handful of blueberries (of some other fruit), and a little water if it needs it - I promise you won't miss the fat! :)

Permalink Reply by Jem on February 26, 2012 at 6:42am

Thank you I will try that! I definitely start craving the savory salads by the end of the day. But maybe I am still getting accustomed to eating so much fruit and I will want it more and more! Back when I thought I couldn't have fruit I craved it all the time! haha:)

Permalink Reply by Jem on February 26, 2012 at 6:47am

Great! Thank you! I will try mango as well!:)

Permalink Reply by Rawfruitygoddess on February 26, 2012 at 10:32am

Welcome.Shell is spot on,eat more cals from fruits and this will lower your fat % for the day and you can still enjoy your 1/2 avo.Make eliminating salt and pepper the next thing on your list to do :)I love lemon or lime juice in my greens.You are doing so well,it's an exciting journey of  learning :)

Permalink Reply by Jem on February 26, 2012 at 12:19pm

Thank you so much for the encouragement and support! It is a very exciting journey! I am enjoying a dateorade right now! YUM!

Permalink Reply by Crisa Renee Kessling on March 21, 2012 at 6:11am

When I first read your dressing of avocado,lemon,salt and pepper I was like oh man that sounds good I'm making it tonight then I read the comments and was like oh man maybe not. I have never been a salt person but ever since I became LFRV I crave it solo bad. What the heck is that about. I usually have a half an an avocado with my slaps at night as well and am having a hard time finding a yummy salad to go with it.

Permalink Reply by Jem on March 21, 2012 at 7:21am

Yea I am trying to stay away from the salt more and more. I notice if I have to much I will retain quite a bit of water for a couple days! I have also used bits of olives or pickles in my salad to make them saltier. I don't know how bad that is to use. In my salad I usually have spinach, grape tomatoes, bell pepper, cucumber, celery, red onion, basil leaves (so yum!), avocado mushed up so it coats the salad and lemon. After a recommendation I have tried paprika and cumin powder mixed in the salad, which is delicious but probably not for everyone!

Permalink Reply by ednshell on March 21, 2012 at 8:39am

Oh yeah, salt can be hard to quit!

Salt Warning
by David Klein, Ph.D.

from Living Nutrition Magazine vol. 18

Avoid all salt – it’s a toxic, irritating, corrosive, stimulating, enervating and potentially deadly poison. Yes, even Celtic and Himalayan salts are destructive to your body and health – don’t be fooled by marketing hype! These inorganic substances may be trendy but they are not healthful. In addition to sodium chloride, they contain numerous toxic elements including heavy metals, such as aluminum, cadmium, lead and mercury. These wreak havoc in the body, and are very difficult to eliminate.

If you live in a northern region or near the ocean you have probably seen how rock salt and salt spray eats steel members and chrome coatings on automobiles. If you’ve ever had an open flesh wound and exposed it to salt, your senses will have told you how destructive it is. Salt paralyzes the intestinal villi and kills cells – would you knowingly bathe your delicate villi, your arteries, veins and capillaries with such a corrosive solution? Salt brine kills insects and “pickles” vegetables. Do you want to run a solution of that through your brain 24 hours a day? An ounce of salt, taken all at once, spells suicide.

You cannot become healthy if your sense of taste is befuddled by unnatural flavorings. Salt does not bring out the flavor of food; it overpowers your taste buds, deadening them to all sensation other than additional salt, causing unnatural cravings, overeating and beverage guzzling.  

Salt bonds with water, and its toxicity necessitates extra fluid intake. The body’s dilution response causes the cells to become dehydrated, severely impairing health. Salt also throws off the blood’s electrolyte balance (e.g., the sodium to potassium ratio) and acidifies the body, eroding health and impeding healing. Most illness cannot be overcome when salt is part of the diet. The few salt eaters I’ve counseled did not heal their disease conditions until they followed my recommendation of giving up salt--even though their diets were otherwise nearly perfect.

Hypertension (high blood pressure), edema, cardiovascular disease, stroke, atherosclerosis, asthma, arthritis, rheumatism, Alzheimer’s disease, lupus, premenstrual syndrome, gout, cancer and a host of other disease conditions are linked to salt. Can the body handle a little bit of salt? Maybe, but not on a regular basis. Why risk ruining your precious health?

We do need mineral salts–no doubt about it. From where should we get our mineral salts? Plant foods is the natural answer. The liquids from fruits and vegetables contain all of the mineral salts we need, in safe, organic, usable form. For rich, satisfying flavors, obtain produce grown in soil generously mineralized with a rock powder amendment. If possible, grow your own produce, adding such mineral sources as rock powder, azamite, or kelp powder to your compost and soil.

Abstain from salt, clean out, eat whole, fresh, ripe, raw, organic tender vegetables plus savory and sweet fruits. Your salt cravings will vanish and unseasoned foods will taste outrageously delicious.  

http://www.vibranthealthandwealth.com/vibrance/articles/salt.html