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Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%

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Re: Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%

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Post by rmast »

strken wrote: post #59
buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #35

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Oh boy. Now we’re entering the fiber era. We’re just leaving the protein era. Before that it was the intermittent fasting era. Before that it was the keto era. The low fat era was probably a few before that. I hear about fiber constantly all of the sudden. You might be right about it, but how do we know it’s different than. All the past nutrition tends?

I feel like we're due for something really ridiculous next. I've been paying attention to macros, fibre, salt, and having a reasonably varied diet for years; we've done salt, fat, carbs, protein, and now we're doing fibre. "Eat a varied diet" seems boring but maybe those influencers selling pills made from 500 vegetables were ahead of the curve all along.

It would probably be better to just eat all those different vegetables as part of actual meals to get a varied diet, rather than in pill form.

I was under the impression that more protein and less salt/fat/carbs are still kinda the trend? If more fiber gets added to the mix I guess it is essentially telling people to eat more plants, thus leading to more varied diets overall.

Re: Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%

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Post by strken »

Lord_Zero wrote: post #23
Noumenon72 wrote: post #19

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Like stirred in? Or as sides?

I think that was a joke, all those things increase cholesterol. Egg yolks high in bad cholesterol, soy sauce has tons of sodium, and cottage cheese high in fat.

Cottage cheese is quite low in fat for cheese. The one at my local supermarket is 11.3g protein, 2.4g fat, 6.3g carbs, and it's not a diet version.

It's still very salty and most of the carbs are in the form of the sugar lactose, I'm not really recommending it as a health food, it's just comparatively low in fat.

Re: Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%

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Post by AnonC »

lanfeust6 wrote: post #41
brandonb wrote: post #7

Fiber is the ultimate nutritional power tool. Not only does fiber reduce cardiovascular mortality by 26% (by cutting cholesterol), surprisingly enough, fiber even reduces your risk of cancer by 22%: https://www.empirical.health/blog/dietary-fiber-reduces-all-... (Oatmeal is high in fiber, among other things, which I think is part of what's going on here.)

In related fashion, you might be interested in reading about the impact of soy protein.

Can you please elaborate and/or provide links?

Re: Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%

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Post by derwiki »

Lord_Zero wrote: post #23
Noumenon72 wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like stirred in? Or as sides?

I think that was a joke, all those things increase cholesterol. Egg yolks high in bad cholesterol, soy sauce has tons of sodium, and cottage cheese high in fat.

Haha sorry never meant to imply it was a cholesterol friendly meal, it’s just how I make my oatmeal.

Re: Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%

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Post by EPWN3D »

brandonb wrote: post #7

Fiber is the ultimate nutritional power tool. Not only does fiber reduce cardiovascular mortality by 26% (by cutting cholesterol), surprisingly enough, fiber even reduces your risk of cancer by 22%: https://www.empirical.health/blog/dietary-fiber-reduces-all-... (Oatmeal is high in fiber, among other things, which I think is part of what's going on here.)

I wonder, do overnight oats wind up processing away a lot of the benefits? Do steel-cut oats have more of an effect on cholesterol than rolled?

Re: Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%

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Post by EPWN3D »

netcraft wrote: post #27
Loughla wrote: post #22

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I've eaten oatmeal for breakfast, have a heart healthy diet, and exercise regularly. My total cholesterol and especially LdL are always massively high. My body hates me.

I have high cholesterol, have had for more than a decade. Was on a statin, they didnt help. Doubled them, they didnt help. Changed my diet radically, lost 25 lbs (I was a little overweight, but not bad), ate full medeteranian diet and did everything I could, my numbers didnt budge. Changed to a stronger one and within two weeks my numbers were perfect. I believe for some of us its purely genetic.

There are some people who just have high cholesterol but none of the other risk factors. I'm one of them. I did a calcium score on my heart, and it came back clean. The cardiologist basically said my cholesterol is just part of who I am, and it's not causing problems.

If you're similar to me, you might want to get a second opinion. There are different kinds of LdL cholesterol, and the small, dense particles are the ones that cause blockages. Big puffy ones don't. I have mostly big puffy ones, but classifying them is a different test that has to be special-ordered.

I also have a very low resting heart rate, exercise regularly, have a high VO2Max, and have a healthy diet. So the claim that I was at major risk of a cardiac episode just didn't pass the smell test. If it wasn't for those things, I probably wouldn't have asked questions when my doctor said I should go on a statin.

Re: Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%

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Post by jghn »

rmast wrote: post #56
tim-tday wrote: post #38

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Used to have a single egg, slice of peperjack cheese draped over it and some fruit. sometimes + meat of some sort. Nothing I thought of as overly unhealthy.

All of those things (other than the fruit) have cholesterol. Cheese and meat can also be quite a bit of saturated fat.

Dietary cholesterol has very little causation with blood cholesterol

Re: Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%

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Post by jcynix »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #3
tim-tday wrote: post #2

My doctor had me on statins because I tested with high cholesterol. I switched to oatmeal for breakfast. Stopped statins tested again. Totally normal.

How do you take your oatmeal?

We heat up unskimmed milk, add oatmeal, let them soak for at least 10 minutes. Then serve them and pour a little bit of cold milk over the cooked oatmeal. Plain, or add some fresh fruit, nuts, berries to taste.

Re: Just two days of oatmeal cut bad cholesterol by 10%

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Post by bulbar »

buzzerbetrayed wrote: post #35
brandonb wrote: post #7

Fiber is the ultimate nutritional power tool. Not only does fiber reduce cardiovascular mortality by 26% (by cutting cholesterol), surprisingly enough, fiber even reduces your risk of cancer by 22%: https://www.empirical.health/blog/dietary-fiber-reduces-all-... (Oatmeal is high in fiber, among other things, which I think is part of what's going on here.)

Oh boy. Now we’re entering the fiber era. We’re just leaving the protein era. Before that it was the intermittent fasting era. Before that it was the keto era. The low fat era was probably a few before that. I hear about fiber constantly all of the sudden. You might be right about it, but how do we know it’s different than. All the past nutrition tends?

Idk about cholesterol, fiber is well known to be very healthy. Same for protein.

Losing body fat will often have the biggest impact by far if one is overweight, though. It also stabilizes blood sugar and has a lot of benefits in general.

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