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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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mikestorrent wrote: post #42
wisemang wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bah. I love putting a layer of frozen blueberries at the bottom of the bowl then layering on piping hot steel cut oats to thaw and warm them up. You’re probably right that I shouldn’t add dried cranberries and a tiny drizzle of maple syrup on top (occasionally with thinly sliced bananas) but I’m happy enough to be wrong about it. I also skip the milk.

You're missing out on up to two or three extra months of life by enjoying yourself now! I hope you think about that when you're too old to think about things!

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Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Post by Insanity »

throwaway173738 wrote: post #35
fellowniusmonk wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oatmeal is fine, but has nothing on hulled barley. Oats are for horses. Mankind basically co-evolved with Barley.

Hulled barley gives me the worst stomach ache of my life. I’m a horse I guess.

This comment actually had me 'laughing out load', haha. I've never tried Hulled Barley, and I guess now I'm put off from even trying :)

Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Post by thesz »

wwwtyro wrote: post #32

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…

VLDL, a precursor for LDL, is produced in liver. Both are more or less the same chemically, but differ in the amount of fat carried. LDL is VLDL but somewhat processed by body, HDL is a VLDL (LDL) completely processed by body.

Bile is used to process food in the gut. It does not go back into our system. Bile is still produced by liver even in long fasts.

Oatmeals is a kind of elimination diet, much like carnivore diet or rice diet. The later one also lowered cholesterol.

What oatmeal diet really does is it completely eliminates essential fatty acids in food. These fatty acids are critical in VLDL production and, thusly, oatmeal diet reduces LDL levels through less production of VLDL.

Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Post by nxobject »

racecar789 wrote: post #49

If switching to oatmeal, go with the unflavored raw oats. It's not bad once a person gets used to it. Substituting milk with water is also perfectly fine. Eating a low sugar breakfast does feel pretty healthy.

As EZ-E says above, adding a dash of healthy fat (olive oil) above does improve the mouthfeel - as well as using a little more water than you need.

Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Post by Marsymars »

x0x0 wrote: post #50
wgjordan wrote: post #33

It's well known that an oatmeal diet lowers cholesterol (the article itself cites a 1907 'oat cure' in its intro). The new finding here is insight into the exact mechanism- a short-term, high-dose oatmeal diet (300g/day for two days) had significantly greater LDL-lowering effect than a medium-term, moderate-dose oatmeal diet (80g/day for six weeks), and they associated the difference with increases in several plasma…

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.

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.

Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Post by Marsymars »

mikestorrent wrote: post #41
wwwtyro wrote: post #32

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…

So, me putting butter on my oatmeal is not gross and decadent, but actually the new health food craze?

Presumably you'd want something like olive or avocado oil with less saturated fat.

Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Post by smallerize »

brandon272 wrote: post #37
ksherlock wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I think you are mixing up oats and oatmeal. And I think (but am not positive) that the study is referring to 300g of prepared oatmeal.

That wouldn't really make sense since amount of water could vary. Anyway the article says "Each oat meal comprised 100 × g of rolled oat flakes... boiled in water."

Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Post by Marsymars »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #46
wewewedxfgdf wrote: post #19

Oatmeal is food of the gods - BUT only if you don't pollute is with all sorts of add ons. Oatmeal and milk, nothing more. No fruit no nuts no sugar no honey no sprinkles of whatever. Perfect.

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.

Savoury oatmeal might be my wife's top-rated thing that I brought to the relationship.

Re: Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level

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Post by sci_prog »

EZ-E wrote: post #45

I 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…

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 several times a week.
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