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Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Post by bitshiftfaced »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #84
bob1029 wrote: post #69

Oatmeal is amazing at stabilizing blood sugar levels. It's like adding inertia to the power grid. If you are eating any kind of snack cracker or refined wheat product, I would suggest replacing with oats and then reporting back on results after one week. I think the beneficial effects are strong enough to completely offset the impact of things like occasional bowl of ice cream and package of nerds gummy clusters. Thi…

How do you reconcile this with fact that oatmeal has higher glycemic index than ice cream?

Ice cream / milk has saturated fat, which is something that people who are watching their cholesterol might want to limit. Fat helps slow digestion, which is beneficial for the glycemic index. It depends on the ice cream too. Steel cut and rolled oats' glycemic load is not that bad, especially when eaten with berries, nuts, etc.

Also, using ice cream as the benchmark is misleading, as people might view it as a junk food and think that its glycemic index is higher than they otherwise would, but actually its glycemic index is low/moderate, depending on the type.

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Post by FrancisMoodie »

brador wrote: post #137
Marsymars wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's quite a bit of volume, but it's "only" about 1000 Calories if it doesn't have any oils/sugar added. I'd guess the easiest way to get it down would be to just blend the oats into water without cooking so you have something that you can just drink like water.

And this is the real reason. The oatmeal put them on a crash diet of 1000 calories a day. And filled them so they didn’t reach for non reported snacks.

They had a control group who also went on a reduced calorie deficit but without oats and found that the oats eating group had a much higher decrease of cholesterol, it's in the article.

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

resoluteteeth wrote: post #148
d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #143

Interesting that it doesn’t specify what type of oatmeal, e.g steel cut vs quick oats etc. I thought steel cut is more beneficial.

Rolled oats according to the paper

Thanks , I found it after clicking through to the actual nature paper, where it’s a detail buried deep down in the paper. They really should have mentioned it up front.

Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Post by pipe2devnull »

Buttons840 wrote: post #112

I prefer soybeans. They have more fiber (including more soluble fiber), and they have more protein. I realized this when tracking micronutrients with an app (tracking every gram I put into my body), and realized my 600 calorie steel-cut-oats breakfast was often outdone by soybeans I'd eat later in the day. The soybeans had more fiber. And I think they're easier to eat. It's pretty boring, but I microwave a bowl of fr…

I mean good for you for being able to eat a breakfast of plain soybeans but even if it extends my life a bit I don’t that I could do it.

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Post by Palmik »

fuzztester wrote: post #85
kstenerud wrote: post #48

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With just the oats it's hard. What I do is ferment my own greek yogurt (milk and starter in an instant pot for 9h, then strain it in the fridge overnight) and eat that with müsli mixed in (the German kind that's nothing but whole grains and some raisins, not the garbage that's basically breakfast cereal). Tastes great and gives you a ton of slow-release energy and protein.

Greek yogurt has a lot of protein?

Actual Greek yogurt will have 8-12% of it's weight in protein.

Another option might be curd / quark (differs a lot per country).

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Post by beAbU »

tiew9Vii wrote: post #117
sci_prog wrote: post #60

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I've been doing something similar for breakfast, one cup of oatmeal + one cup of water and about two tablespoons of chia seeds, microwave for 2 minutes. Add a banana and some honey, top it with whole roasted almonds and some raspberries. It has been doing wonders for my digestion. I'll have to try to add olive oil as well. My LDL was 150 last time I checked. I wonder what it is now since I've been doing this meal sev…

One of my most used appliances is a Tiger rice cooker with Porridge and timer function. It's been used pretty much every day for 7+ years since I purchased it. Every night I put 130g steel cut oats in, 400-420g of water, set it to cook for 45 mins and be ready for when I wake up in the morning. I'll then add 25g protein powder, sometimes a few berries or sprinkle with seeds/nuts. A nutritional power house. I find ste…

You can skip the whole cooking part if you leave your oats and water mixed overnight!

Put your oats, portion of milk, some berries, cinnamon and honey in a container and leave it in the fridge overnight.

Do it now.

Come thank me tomorrow morning once you've tried it.

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Post by slumberlust »

linsomniac wrote: post #145
tiew9Vii wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of my most used appliances is a Tiger rice cooker with Porridge and timer function. It's been used pretty much every day for 7+ years since I purchased it. Every night I put 130g steel cut oats in, 400-420g of water, set it to cook for 45 mins and be ready for when I wake up in the morning. I'll then add 25g protein powder, sometimes a few berries or sprinkle with seeds/nuts. A nutritional power house. I find ste…

I came up with a microwave steel cut oat method that worked well. Going from memory, I put the oats and hot water in a bowl in the microwave and set it for 45 seconds 100%, then 9 minutes at power level 2. One of those microwaves with "Cook 1" and "Cook 2" on it. The hot water I put in initially was basically boiling hot, you might need to do more time on cook 1 if you put in less hot water (at work we had one of tho…

Damn, I just blast my oats until they threaten to overflow the bowl and call it a day. Does this technique unlock some creaminess or something unique?

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Post by jnovacho »

Buttons840 wrote: post #112

I prefer soybeans. They have more fiber (including more soluble fiber), and they have more protein. I realized this when tracking micronutrients with an app (tracking every gram I put into my body), and realized my 600 calorie steel-cut-oats breakfast was often outdone by soybeans I'd eat later in the day. The soybeans had more fiber. And I think they're easier to eat. It's pretty boring, but I microwave a bowl of fr…

Doesn't soy mimic estrogene, thus causing potentially other issues?

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Post by crashingintoyou »

ares623 wrote: post #72

Are we talking instant oat meal here? Or something more raw like rolled or even cut oats? I tried to get into rolled or cut but the prep time was hard to keep up with.

If you're worried about prep time, I've been taking the approach at https://www.hippressurecooking.com/pressure-cooker-oatmeal-h... of cooking steel cut oats pot-in-pot in my Instant Pot.

As a single guy, I just cook the oats in the bowl that I intend to serve them in and, since it's basically water just water in the base of the instant pot, there's not much cleaning required. The oats cook without manual intervention during the cooking process.

It takes a bit of time, but in theory you could set up your instant pot on a delay timer and wake up to freshly-cooked steel-cut oats.

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