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Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level
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#242Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this why my grandma put oil in the pasta pot?
That's to reduce the pasta sticking together as it cooks.
In my experience, stirring within the first tens of seconds of submersion is enough and it won't stick together again for the rest of the boil. After it's strained is a different matter, but you might as well wait until then if you're going to oil it.
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#243I cook whole-grain, hulled Barley for an hour and put it some beef bone stock we make at home, or add it to my wife's Soto Ayam (Indonesian chicken soup). Barley evidently has more fiber and is a bit more effective than oatmeal. It also tastes good with warm milk and honey like oatmeal, or simply with butter and salt. I spend the extra bucks on the Irish salted butter. Tastes creamy and yummy.
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#245I fixed my high cholesterol problem with oats... Months ago I replaced my daily dinner with a mix of oats + banana + protein powder + 1 tbsp olive oil + peanut butter + flaxseeds + oat milk - all mixed in a blender. My bad cholesterol (LDL levels) tanked from 160 mg/dL to 91 mg/dL. My daily dinners before that were not even that unhealthy. Dropping sat fat intake had nowhere near that much effect for me. For me and I…
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…
Because medication is more effective. Side effects from statins are relatively uncommon and generally mild, so it wouldn’t be ethical to use lifestyle as a first-line treatment in place of, say, a combination of low dose statin and pcsk9 inhibitors.
However many clinicians do take a “let’s sort out the problem as quickly as possible with medication, and if you want to try lifestyle and back off (or even stop entirely) the meds and see how your cholesterol is afterwards, we can do that.”
This seems like a good balance to me.
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#246I am currently eating my normal breakfast. It consists of steel-cut oats cooked in a Zojirushi NL-DCC10/18 rice cooker (designed for steel cut oats), with frozen fruit added, and a dollop of olive oil after when it finishes. It takes less than a minute to prepare and about an hour to cook.
It's unbelievably easy, genuinely tasty, and was the result of me trying to make a concerted effort at trying to lower my cholesterol.
If somebody wants to start a company. I would suggest a steel-cut oats (rice) cooker, that has an overnight timer that will have the oats prepared when I wake up. With one compartment for oats, one for water, and a refrigerated compartment for frozen berries (even just insulated with ice cubes). I'd pay good money for that.
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#247Reminds me of bircher mûsli
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#248Rolled oats tend to give me anxiety, notice the issue with other large amounts of carbs in the AM. Anybody else have that issue? I figure it's a glycemic index issue. I don't believe the issue was present with steelcut.
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#249I fixed my high cholesterol problem with oats... Months ago I replaced my daily dinner with a mix of oats + banana + protein powder + 1 tbsp olive oil + peanut butter + flaxseeds + oat milk - all mixed in a blender. My bad cholesterol (LDL levels) tanked from 160 mg/dL to 91 mg/dL. My daily dinners before that were not even that unhealthy. Dropping sat fat intake had nowhere near that much effect for me. For me and I…
> Months ago I replaced my daily dinner with a mix
Any particular reason for changing your dinner and not BF or lunch?
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Oats group saw a decrease of 10% but the number for the control group is not given.