1 trick of a tiny belly

Great news, but just for women. Well, for men too, but only indirectly. Also, 7 other things worth your time.

Today: A little bit of good news for women, coming to us from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where researchers set out to determine whether eating avocados could affect belly fat in a positive way.

Cutting to the chase: Yes, it did, but mainly just for women.

More on this in a second, but I want us to come clean first about why these researchers were studying avocados to begin with.

• Was it because they’re tasty and trendy? Maybe.

• Was it because avocado toast, despite having at one point become symbolic for all the wrong that Millennials have wrought upon the world (as if they were the only generation that has some things to answer for; join the club), is actually delicious? Quite possibly.

• Was it because the whole study was funded by the Hass Avocado Board, which, according to its website, “exists to help make avocados America’s most popular fruit?” Ding ding ding! There’s your winner!

I wanted to provide that context; it’s also disclosed right up front in the article itself,…