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Housecall For Health: Avocados

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Could adding a little avocado to your diet be a key to staying healthy?

FOX’s Colleen Cappon has more in today’s edition of “Housecall For Health”:

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New research suggests an avocado a day may keep the doctor away. Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination survey find eating half a medium avocado daily increases levels of good cholesterol, and lowers the risk of metabolic syndrome. Nearly 18,000 adult men and women were surveyed. Those who consumed avocado regularly had a lower body weight, by an average of eight pounds and waist circumference.

Housecall For Health. I’m Colleen Cappon, FOX News Radio.

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