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It's not necessarily equivalent but I think that losing fat can dump cholesterol into the body, and gaining body fat can sequester it.
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The great thing about oatmeal is you can change the taste easily. Savory, sweet, spiced, aromatic, creamy, chewy, whatever you want. My go-to is oatmeal with milk and pepper, but some days I want some aged cheddar, or smoked cheddar (mmmm!). Frozen wild blueberries/wineberries for a winter treat. Tumeric, ginger, cinnamon and honey if I'm getting sick. A fried egg and hot sauce if it's a lazy sunday.
What a bunch of fucking heathen.
And I don't eat rabbit food. I still have pasta and pizza and other stuff.
And I do like oatmeal but don't eat it too often.
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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 cup of oatmeal + one cup of water Do you need a knife and fork?
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So it appears oat fibers are just quite effective natural bile acid sequestrants[1]. That makes me wonder why don't we use this class of locally-acting compounds as first line cholesterol lowering treatment, instead going straight for the "bazooka" of systemic acting statins that have lots of side-effects, even affecting personality[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile_acid_sequestrant [2] https://www.bbc.com/f…
Patient compliance is notoriously fickle, especially when it comes to changing one's lifestyle (diet).
My understanding is that: 1. When someone consumes fat, bile is released into the gut. 2. Oatmeal (and other soluble fibers like psyllium husk) capture this bile and it is excreted in stool. 3. In order to create the bile, the liver needs LDL. Because the LDL it used to create the bile was lost when it was captured, it exposes more LDL receptors and pulls LDL out of the bloodstream, thereby lowering LDL levels. It se…
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you say "fixed" but have you asked "why" you think your cholesterol is broken and needs "fixed"?? why is your cholesterol broken? why is higher cholesterol numbers strictly associated with longer life? why is lower cholesterol numbers strictly associated with premature death? why do we think higher cholesterol numbers are bad when the worldwide data clearly shows higher numbers are healthier?
there are always layfolks who think they're smarter than the medical professionals https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIR.000000000000...
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So it appears oat fibers are just quite effective natural bile acid sequestrants[1]. That makes me wonder why don't we use this class of locally-acting compounds as first line cholesterol lowering treatment, instead going straight for the "bazooka" of systemic acting statins that have lots of side-effects, even affecting personality[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bile_acid_sequestrant [2] https://www.bbc.com/f…
My guess is something like, because there aren't patents on food. There's no financial incentive for the healthcare industry to promote a healthy lifestyle.
Current recommendations are to get 15+ grams of fiber per 1000 Calories, but we know from, e.g., hunter-gatherer populations that humans can eat far more than that.
Building a diet around whole food sources that are high in fiber and protein is basically all you need for a healthy diet, constrained by however many calories you need to support a healthy weight.
Fruits, veggies, legumes, whole grains, nuts, seeds, etc. should make up the majority of your diet.
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300g is a lot of oatmeal. I eat Bob's Red Mill steel cut oats for breakfast every day; 1/2c dry is about 88g. That's a pretty decent meal. 3.5x that is probably most of what you eat that day.
i mean we talkin cooked or uncooked? 88g dry may get much heavier after adding 3/4 cups water