Is it possible to eat to much avocado?

[Bluenoise]

Okay it may sound like a weird question. But I know that avocados are toxic to most mammals, livestock and house pets included. Luckily they don't seem to have this effect on us.

 

However, I've been eating ALOT lately. I think I'm seriously addicted. If I don't eat them for a while I start feeling kinda shitty. Plus they make me feel so good after I eat one. I eat at least a few a week, between 3-5 I'd say. Now I know they're high in calories, but I'm not worried about that. I'm healthy work out often, and have actually been loosing weight recently. Plus besides that I don't get much fat anywhere else besides nuts, since I eat lean meats and not much junk food. So that's balanced.

 

Is there anything else that I have to be concerned about? Is it possible to eat enough to get negative effects from the toxins present?

 

I make an awesome guacomole btw!!

 

We should really have a health form in medicine or biology...

[ecoli]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado#Toxicity

 

this is all I found on toxicity

 

 

ps. - you could have made the thread here: http://www.scienceforums.net/forumdisplay.php?f=48

[Bluenoise]

Yeah I found that as well. It doesn't say much on wikipedia. There probably aren't any health concerns if it's so hard to find.

 

Sure but it doesn't really fit into medicine.

[YT2095]

a search for Persin does show a few results in animal toxicology.

(when you stop laughing at Google for saying "did you mean PERSON")

[Bluenoise]

One runs into difficulty researching this topic when sentences such as this are discovered "Much research needs to be done on comparative toxicology between animals and humans."....

 

 

I knew it we're really fungi!!!

 

 

 

Apparently it causes apotosis in breast cancer cells to some degree. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=16985064&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

 

Well I don't have breast's so not of much concern to me either way....