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Improve Exercise and Recovery with Avocados and Beets


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Tasty and loaded with vitamins and minerals, avocados are a “healthy fat” that can speed recovery after exercise, reports a new Brazilian study. Researchers gave 12 wom- en either 600 milliliters (mL) of avocado pulp or a placebo in capsules. After waiting an hour, the women ran on a treadmill for half an hour, then recovered for an hour. Metabol- ic tests of heart rate, heart rate variability and skin conductance indicated those taking the avocado pulp recov- ered faster than those giv- en a placebo. In another new study, 12 Spanish men were able to do more back squats in weight-lift


training an hour after drinking 12 mL of beet


root juice compared with a placebo, suggesting the nitrate-rich drink improves muscular endurance.


Try Cinnamon to Reduce Migraines


Cinnamon, long known to help


blood sugar lev-


els, can diminish migraine attacks, according to a new study in Phytotherapy Research


from Iran. Fifty patients with migraines took either three capsules a day of 600


milligrams (about a quarter teaspoon) of cinnamon or a placebo. After two months, those taking cinnamon had significantly reduced severity, frequency and duration of migraine episodes. Most of the world’s cinnamon is Cinnamomum verum, produced in Sri Lanka, also called Ceylon cinnamon. Cassia cinnamon (Cinnamomum iners) is not accepted as a true cinnamon by herbalists.


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