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Coming up on the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, eating an avocado every day can be a healthy habit. A randomized controlled trial recruited about a

thousand people with big wastes who didn't usually eat avocados. Half the

group ate an avocado daily for six months.

The researchers provided the fruit along with instructions on how to peel and eat them.

They told the other half of the volunteers to continue with their ordinary diet with no or few avocados.

At the start of the study each participant gave blood

and underwent an MRI.

In addition, the scientists weighed and measured these heavy people carefully.

They checked in on the volunteers each month.

At the end of the six-month study, avocado eaters had neither gained nor lost weight, even though they had

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