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Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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This isn't news it's be known for decades?

Yea it’s on the oatmeal boxes even. Part of what’s interesting about this study though is they claim this two day intensive(300g per day) oatmeal diet showed microbiome changes which persist for months.

300g of oatmeal is about 3.3 cups (US measure).

I would consider a normal bowl of oatmeal for breakfast to be about half a cup, so this is quite a bit more.

Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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300 grams of oatmeal a day, basically nothing else, and your LDL only goes down 10%.

Hardly “nothing else”. Two smoothies a day with 150g of oats blended in them will basically cover this. You’d still have plenty of room for other food.

But that's not what the study tested. The study showed that both calorie restriction, and calorie restriction combined with almost all calories from oats, reduced cholesterol; but that the effect was more durable for the latter case. No data was gathered on eating oats without calorie restriction in this study.

Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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This isn't news it's be known for decades?

Yea it’s on the oatmeal boxes even. Part of what’s interesting about this study though is they claim this two day intensive(300g per day) oatmeal diet showed microbiome changes which persist for months.

Oatmeal is fine, but has nothing on hulled barley.

Oats are for horses. Mankind basically co-evolved with Barley.

Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yea it’s on the oatmeal boxes even. Part of what’s interesting about this study though is they claim this two day intensive(300g per day) oatmeal diet showed microbiome changes which persist for months.

300g of oatmeal is about 3.3 cups (US measure). I would consider a normal bowl of oatmeal for breakfast to be about half a cup, so this is quite a bit more.

Yeah... a large (1" tall) canister of oatmeal is 1.2kg so imagine eating 2 big ass cans of oatmeal a week.
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