Forget Bananas! Avocados Are Quite Possibly the World's Most Perfect Food!

God must have been in a good mood when he created avocados. Because I tell you, here lately, that is for the last six months or so, every time I even think about the prospect of eating what has become a staple in my regular diet, avocado-bacon and tomato salad, I get pretty doggone giddy. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, late night snack during writing, it doesn't matter when, if there are avocados in the house, I'm eating them as soon as they're ripe enough.

"Need a few items from the market-I'll get 'em baby." By now she knows I'm coming back with whatever we need, plus a few avocados. Don't let me try and describe for you what I look like once I get there. If you ever see a guy hovering over the avocados in the produce section of the market, meticulously rifling through 'em all, searching for the very best ones available at the time, that might just be me. I've even taken to visiting different market's produce sections with the sole intent of finding out who has the best selection of avocados overall at any given time. What do I do after I find out and return home? Why I gotta give a full report to my girl, whom thankfully likes them "almost" as much as me. "You couldn't possibly like avocados more than me," I tell her. I make that perfectly clear to her every time we sit down for an avocado-something-or-another.It's funny because from the time I'm cutting open an avocado, knifing through the delicious fruit and spooning it out, through sitting down and eating it, all you hear us saying is ooh-ahh, yum-yum-yum, it's so-good. How did I ever go through life without this food of the gods.

Awhile back, I had heard that avocados were very, very good for you. Mind you this was before my current love-affair with avocados started. But now that I have a full-blown case of salivatus-avocadois, I thought I would research a few things about this heavenly fruit found right here on earth. Following is some of the facts I picked to share with you. You didn't think I'd go on-and-on about what might be quite possibly the world's most perfect food, did you?

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