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Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level
- ProAm 9mo agoThis isn't news it's be known for decades?
- roxolotl 9mo agoYea it’s on the oatmeal boxes even. Part of what’s interesting about this study though is they claim this two day intensive(300g per day) oatmeal diet showed microbiome changes which persist for months.
- zdw 9mo ago300g of oatmeal is about 3.3 cups (US measure). I would consider a normal bowl of oatmeal for breakfast to be about half a cup, so this is quite a bit more.
- ksherlock 9mo agoYeah... a large (1" tall) canister of oatmeal is 1.2kg so imagine eating 2 big ass cans of oatmeal a week.
- brandon272 9mo agoI 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.
- smallerize 9mo agoThat 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."
- PaulRobinson 9mo agoWhich is why they are spreading the 300g out over an entire day, and it's the entire diet for 2 days. The study is not suggesting this is a long-term diet. They're saying "eat oats for all your food for two days, and your cholesterol lowers by ~10% and then stays low for ~6 weeks due to changes in your gut biome". They're not saying eat 300g for breakfast and then eat as normal. They're not saying do this every day. They're saying 2 days, this is what you eat, spread out to replace all your meals across those 2 days, then go back to normal.
- fellowniusmonk 9mo agoOatmeal is fine, but has nothing on hulled barley. Oats are for horses. Mankind basically co-evolved with Barley.
- throwaway173738 9mo agoHulled barley gives me the worst stomach ache of my life. I’m a horse I guess.
- Insanity 9mo agoThis 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 :)
- fellowniusmonk 9mo agoPeople go too hard, you really just need to drink 1 tsp ground up and boiled in a drink. It aggressively gels with water so it's best consumed like it was historically as a "small beer", with lot's of water.
- awesome_dude 9mo ago> Oats are for horses ANZAC Cookies are the greatest foods on THE PLANET
- throwup238 9mo agoBarley was the preferred food for cavalry horses alongside oats since antiquity so “oats are for horses” is a medieval European quirk.
- throwaway173738 9mo agoYeah for reference 54 grams is about 200 kcal, so this is 1200 kcal or so of just oats. That leaves 600-800 kcal for other food if you’re targeting 1800-2000 kcal/day which is a reasonable calorie restriction. So this isn’t really a sustainable diet in the long term.
- julianz 9mo agoTwo days isn't long term though.
- pogue 9mo agoWorking link https://web.archive.org/web/20260124061041/https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/017-2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260124061041/https://www.uni-b...
- wolfi1 9mo agolink to the paper itself: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68303-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68303-9
- carbocation 9mo ago300 grams of oatmeal a day, basically nothing else, and your LDL only goes down 10%.
- resoluteteeth 9mo agoThe oat diet was two days and the effect lasted two weeks though so it's not as bad as eating nothing but it's all the to e
- brandonb 9mo agoDefinitely shows the comparative power of medications. Statins, ezetimibe, and PCSK9 inhibitors can reduce LDL or ApoB by 85-95%.
- smt88 9mo ago> Statins, ezetimibe, and PCSK9 inhibitors can reduce LDL or ApoB by 85-95% What? Absolutely not. Not even close. Provide a source if you really believe this.
- trylfthsk 9mo ago40mg Rosuvastatin + 10mg ezetimibe + leqvio did this precisely for my n=1.
- brandonb 9mo agoOne source: https://www.escardio.org/communities/councils/cardiology-practice/education/cardiopractice/lipid-lowering-therapy-what-comes-after-the-standard-treatment-statin-ezetimi/ https://www.escardio.org/communities/councils/cardiology-pra...
- no-name-here 9mo agoSpecifically: “ Although our pharmaceutical armamentarium is very good at the moment (the combination of statin-ezetimibe-proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 [PCSK9] can reduce LDL cholesterol [LDL-C] levels by 85%), new drugs are emerging through the different pitfalls of current drugs.”
- sublinear 9mo agoI think the main thing is to understand why oatmeal works: soluble fiber and the gut bacteria feeding on the carbs. That can be achieved within many other diets too. I wish they were more specific in saying what's special about oats, if anything. I also get upset when I see a ton of junk options at the grocery store. They are talking about plain cut oats and whole fresh fruit, but based on the way shelves are stocked I imagine a majority of people get the kind with all the added sugar. You might as well be eating honey smacks at that point. Yogurt has the same problem at the store.
- bhk 9mo agoHold on there. High fiber consumption increases the excretion of cholesterol, by reducing the reabsorption of the cholesterol in bile. The liver produces cholesterol for bile, which mixes with our food in the duodenum and aids absorption of fats. Most of this cholesterol is then re-absorbed by the small intestines. By increasing bulk, fiber reduces the amount that is re-absorbed. Effects on but biome are real too, and apparently beneficial, and may factor in, but it isn't the only (or necessarily the primary) mechanism for reducing serum cholesterol.
- richarlidad 9mo agoHuh, but biome works here.
- Dylan16807 9mo ago> You might as well be eating honey smacks at that point. I don't see how. Adding sugar doesn't remove the fiber.
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- renewiltord 9mo agoThat’s nothing. You should have seen me on my Halo Top ice cream only diet. One point of the ice cream, nothing else. Lost way more weight than these losers. Halo Top, guys, it’s the key.
- _n66o 9mo agoIs that also what gave you the cancer?
- renewiltord 9mo agoNo. That’s from reading your comments. Haha just kidding.
- wewewedxfgdf 9mo agoOatmeal 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.
- postalrat 9mo agoIf you are taking out the sugar you might as well go all the way and take out the milk.
- pinkmuffinere 9mo agoIt’s so funny you’re being downvoted, i think it’s just an expression of how much people hate oatmeal and like milk, lol. And also you can pry my milk from my cold dead hands.
- globular-toast 9mo agoFull fat milk is probably better because a) it will taste better and b) the fat will slow the energy release.
- tonyedgecombe 9mo agoThat's what I do, my son often comments that I eat gruel for breakfast. What a lot of people don't realise is that the creamy texture comes from the oats rather than the milk.
- oguz-ismail2 9mo ago*horses
- deadbabe 9mo agoOatmeal and water
- wisemang 9mo agoBah. 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.
- wwwtyro 9mo agoMy 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 seems to me that in order to maximize the effectiveness of this LDL-lowering approach, one must not simply consume psyllium or oatmeal, but rather consume them in conjunction with fat. Not saturated fat, obviously, which raises LDL, but perhaps unsaturated or polyunsaturated fats. My expectation is that this would trigger the bile secretion required in order to actually sequester it.
- mikestorrent 9mo agoSo, me putting butter on my oatmeal is not gross and decadent, but actually the new health food craze?
- noman-land 9mo agoNuts are also an option.
- Marsymars 9mo agoPresumably you'd want something like olive or avocado oil with less saturated fat.
- askvictor 9mo agoI make steel cut oats in the pressure cooker; you need to put some fat in there to stop it bubbling while it's cooking, so butter has a physical purpose there too. And also tastes delicious.
- bell-cot 9mo agoFor those who haven't done much cooking - this bubble-busting trick works in a wide variety of situations. Very useful. Some proteins seem to have a similar effect - but I haven't tried to narrow that down, and don't know the food science behind it.
- wgjordan 9mo agoIt'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 phenolic compounds triggered by specific changes in the gut microbiome.
- x0x0 9mo ago300g 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.
- Marsymars 9mo agoIt'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.
- brador 9mo agoAnd 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.
- _flux 9mo agoTwo-day crash diet can reduce LDL levels for 6 weeks?
- FrancisMoodie 9mo agoThey 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.
- blinded 9mo agoBeen trying to get into overnight oats (home made) for breakfast but its been hard to hit protein numbers, even with protein powder.
- mikestorrent 9mo agoThe study is suggesting two days of intense oats. You can go totally without protein for two days and barely notice it as long as you're keeping yourself full, and a big pile of oats does a surprisingly good job of that.
- blinded 9mo agoOnce backpacking in Alaska I did oatmeal 10 days straight haha
- kstenerud 9mo agoWith 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.
- blinded 9mo agoAdding greek yogurt thats a good idea! I've had something similar in Iceland, good call.
- fuzztester 9mo agoGreek yogurt has a lot of protein?
- Palmik 9mo agoActual Greek yogurt will have 8-12% of it's weight in protein. Another option might be curd / quark (differs a lot per country).
- EZ-E 9mo agoI 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 assume for many others, lack soluble fibers are the root cause of high LDL levels.
- sci_prog 9mo agoI'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.
- tiew9Vii 9mo agoOne 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 steel cut oats more filling, a lot more substantial with ground oats more goopey. Steel cut oats are normally a hassle to cook but it's set and forget with the rice cooker. From what i've read I also believe the fact they sit soaking over night in water also is breaks down the starches which helps nutrient absorption. Does wonders for digestion and satiety. Everything runs like clockwork with them. If I don't have them for a few days, things get irregular and a noticeable difference in satiety for the rest of the day where i end up snacking as feel hungry after meals.
- linsomniac 9mo agoI 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 those instant boiling water things).
- racecar789 9mo agoIf 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.
- nxobject 9mo agoAs 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.
- bawolff 9mo agoAs someone who grew up eating oatmeal for breakfast... that sounds really disgusting. Don't get me wrong, to each their own, if you like it that's great, but way too liquidly oatmeal plus oil just sounds really disgusting compared to just normal oatmeal + normal amounts of water.
- nxobject 9mo agoHa, I guess that's the difference – I grew up eating porridge and congee. I usually find oatmeal done by my friends too gloopy.
- laurencerowe 9mo agoI much prefer the texture of porridge made in a pan on the stove to that made in the microwave. The stirring releases the starches from the oats. I use rolled oats and cook with just salt and water which avoids the risk of the milk burning if you are inattentive, then add milk or yoghurt (and raw brown sugar) to my bowl.
- lonelyasacloud 9mo agoGo all in and invest in a Spurtle.
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- bob1029 9mo agoOatmeal 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. This is what gets me to power through. If there wasn't some kind of strong upside no one would be eating this stuff willingly.
- dzhiurgis 9mo agoHow do you reconcile this with fact that oatmeal has higher glycemic index than ice cream?
- xhcuvuvyc 9mo agoPretty sure this whole thread is an ad.
- jamesbelchamber 9mo agoBy the powerful oat lobby?
- criddell 9mo agoFiber in oatmeal slows absorption.
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- cess11 9mo ago" Sponsorship The trial was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Diabetes Association (DDG), the German Research Foundation (DFG), the German Cereal Processing, Milling and Starch Industries’ Association (VGMS), and RASO Naturprodukte." I'd be quite suspicious of this study for this reason alone. "They also lost two kilos in weight on average and their blood pressure fell slightly." Two kilos in two days? Edit: Oatmeal is great. I have some most mornings, either as porridge or letting it soak for a bit in "viscous mesophilic fermented milk", as Wikipedia suggests it can be called in english. Lots of starch but it takes a while for it to sugar the blood, and some fiber and protein.
- Jarmsy 9mo ago2kg in 2 days doesn't sound unreasonable at all. Glycogen and water loss from the calorie restriction will do that, along with maybe better bowel regularity from the fiber. Nobody is claiming they lost 2kg of body fat.
- TeMPOraL 9mo ago2 kilograms is about the upper bound of the expected daily weight variability of an adult, caused by water retention and food intake. It's the difference between what you see if you weigh yourself after taking a morning dump vs. after dinner. That's why people are advised to weigh themselves at the same time every day. (For purposes of weight loss, normies are also advised to weigh themselves weekly instead of daily, because it's easier than explaining to them what a low-pass filer is.)
- cess11 9mo agoOK, I assumed they'd controlled for such variance, perhaps they did not.
- ares623 9mo agoAre 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.
- yorwba 9mo ago"Each oat meal comprised 100 × g of rolled oat flakes (Demeterhof Schwab GmbH & Co. KG, Windsbach, Germany) boiled in water."
- crashingintoyou 9mo agoIf you're worried about prep time, I've been taking the approach at https://www.hippressurecooking.com/pressure-cooker-oatmeal-how-to/ 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.
- slumberlust 9mo agoRice cookers also have an option for oatmeal/porridge.
- toddgruben 9mo agoSteel cut oats in the ziroshi rice cooker and you just set what time you want your porridge ready. Its magical
- jimnotgym 9mo agoPorridge? Is Oatmeal what some people call Porridge?
- kube-system 9mo agoOat porridge (aka oatmeal, aka oatmeal porridge) is one type of porridge.
- jimnotgym 9mo agoI suppose I should acknowledge there is a big world out there. If I asked for porridge in the UK I would get oat porridge. The product I bought this morning to make it was called 'porridge oats'.I suspect the Asian version comes from the age of empire with British troops applying their home terms to their rations? 'This gloopy river thing looks like Porridge'. A porridge made of rice in the UK is not a thing as far as I am aware (I'm not in hipster London though), I suspect it would be what we call Rice Pudding?
- lonelyasacloud 9mo ago> A porridge made of rice in the UK is not a thing. No, for that we've adopted the name "rice pudding"
- sevg 9mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oatmeal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oatmeal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porridge Oatmeal is a more specific term than porridge, because porridge isn’t necessarily made from oats (eg, rice in Asia). Though in the UK, when someone says “porridge” they almost always mean oat porridge or oatmeal.
- bronkic 9mo ago"Oatmeal" is a very confusing word to me because it's not actually "meal" (meaning "flour" in this case). There is actually a flour made out of oats, but it's not what you would make porridge out of.
- LowLevelKernel 9mo agoAren’t Oats given to horses to fatten them up in winter? I might be wrong. Just asking . .
- bamboozled 9mo agoEven if they are, is that at all relevant to the topic ?
- zhivota 9mo agoGiven that horses regularly eat grass and hay, oats are comparatively one of the most calorie dense foods they eat.
- a3w 9mo agoAnd cats. Blursed video. Then again, herbivores seem to... "supplement" their protein sources. So not that unexpected.
- frobisher 9mo agoCan't win.
- Buttons840 9mo agoI 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 frozen soybeans and then just eat them plain. They're clean, you could eat them with your fingers without causing a mess (I use a spoon though), and their cleanliness means I'm comfortable having a bowl next to me at the computer or wherever; if they spill I would just pick them up with my fingers and that's it.
- Jarmsy 9mo agoIt looks like this study is not just about the effects from the soluble fiber in oats though, but their specific effects on the microbiome.
- pipe2devnull 9mo agoI 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.
- Buttons840 9mo agoHave you eaten edamame or mukimame? These strange names refer to young soy beans. You can buy them frozen. They're a pretty good snack food. I think they're the best of vegetables.
- jnovacho 9mo agoDoesn't soy mimic estrogene, thus causing potentially other issues?
- Buttons840 9mo agoI think that's an overblown concern that mainly applies to processed forms of soy like soy milk or tofu (I don't consume soy milk or tofu). It would be difficult to consume that much of the raw bean; we're probably talking hundreds of grams of fiber per day if you tried. I'm not certain though, do your own research.
- 2b3a51 9mo agoI'm thinking of a menu; Breakfast: overnight oats with milk (half and half) and a bit of yoghurt and a banana mashed in. Lunch: Oatcakes with tahini/hummus and a salad?? Dinner: Skirlie with spinach and a couple of poached eggs on top. Along with some roast carrots/courgette/aubergine. The eggs would be outside the OA diet I suppose. I think I might try this.
- awl130 9mo agoI eat muesli every morning for breakfast. It's the best way to get oats (raw).
- d4rkp4ttern 9mo agoInteresting that it doesn’t specify what type of oatmeal, e.g steel cut vs quick oats etc. I thought steel cut is more beneficial.
- resoluteteeth 9mo agoRolled oats according to the paper
- d4rkp4ttern 9mo agoThanks , 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.
- bell-cot 9mo agoA point I don't notice being made - Try assuming that the target audience for this research is clinicians and nutritionists working with general population patients - particularly patients who really need cholesterol-reducing interventions. The medical system has limited resources; patients have limited attention spans and compliance curves. The patient may be in your ER or hospital after a medical incident, or in your clinic after a bad test result. If the hospital kitchen, a family member, or the patient himself can get through two days of this relatively easy oatmeal diet, the research say that his short-term and intermediate-term numbers should (X fingers) improve by [details]. If, two real-world days later, both a follow-up cholesterol test and (hopefully) the patient's daily symptoms and perception of his health are greatly improved - that's a clear win, both for him and for the medical system. And (hopefully) the patient's perception of the medical system - because high cholesterol is a chronic health problem, and you need him to readily seek care, show up for appointments, and comply with prescribed treatments.
- js2 9mo agoFull paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68303-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-68303-9 I was curious what the implementation looked like: > In the short-term intervention study, participants assigned to the oat group (OG) consumed three oat meals daily for two days instead of their habitual Western diet. Each oat meal comprised 100 × g of rolled oat flakes (Demeterhof Schwab GmbH & Co. KG, Windsbach, Germany) boiled in water. To ascertain potential long-term effects, the two-day intervention period was followed by a six-week follow-up period during which the participants returned to their habitual diet without oats. Subjects assigned to the control group (CG) consumed three standardized control meals without oats on each intervention day, which were macronutrient-adapted to the OG, instead of their habitual Western diet. > In the six-week intervention study, participants in the oat group (OG6w) replaced one habitual meal per day with an oatmeal comprising 80 × g of rolled oat flakes (Demeterhof Schwab GmbH & Co. KG), while maintaining their habitual Western diet. Participants in the corresponding control group (CG6w) maintained their habitual Western diet and remained abstinent from oats during the six-week study period according to the inclusion criteria. This is pretty remarkable: > Since cholesterol levels tended to remain below baseline during the six-week, oat-free follow-up period, persistent effects on lipid metabolism might be assumed (Fig. 3d). This assumption is further supported by the high compliance observed during the follow-up period, as all participants abstained from oat consumption and returned to their habitual Western diet, with no significant differences compared to their pre-study dietary patterns (Supplementary Data 2). Thus, our results indicate clearly that a high-dose oat diet improves lipid metabolism by decreasing serum TC and LDL-C levels, even after two days, which is consistent with the known cholesterol-lowering effect of oats. In addition, beneficial effects on anthropometrics and glucose metabolism were observed within each diet group (Supplementary Data 2), which we attribute to the diet-related calorie restriction. I gotta say though, 100 grams of oats (three times a day) is a lot. That's over a cup (dry). A typical serving is less than half that (40 grams dry).
- mikae1 9mo agoBarley is also beta glucane rich and likely has an even greater impact on glucose and insulin levels: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15930484/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15930484/
- harmonics 9mo agoI've always been wondering why buckwheat isn't more popular in western countries. It has a similar nutritional profile with high levels of fiber, vitamins and minerals. It's been a staple of my diet for many years as it never gets old thanks to a fantastic complex aroma and taste. I don't even cook it, simply soaking it with water overnight in a refrigerator does the job. Preparation takes 2-3 minutes (except for the overnight soak). Not boiling it also saves all the vitamins.
- germinalphrase 9mo agoWhat are some ways that you prepare it post-soak?
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- jollyllama 9mo agoYes, the Feldman Protocol of Dave Feldman, stipulates this. Large amounts of carbs for days prior to a test. It's not necessarily equivalent but I think that losing fat can dump cholesterol into the body, and gaining body fat can sequester it.
- sleight42 9mo agoI'm vegan and very overweight. Yet my worst LDL was 108 in 2021 and was 88 last year. 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.
- sn9 9mo agoFiber consumption has long been known to reduce cholesterol levels in a dose-dependent fashion. 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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- eggy 9mo agoI 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.
- scoofy 9mo agoI 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.
- cbruns 9mo agoGot an hcc10 and I just throw in the oats and water before I go to bed and set it to be done in the morning.
- assaddayinh 9mo agoReminds me of bircher mûsli
- LazyMans 9mo agoRolled 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.
- andrekandre 9mo agoi cant eat carbs in the morning either, i usually wait til afternoon/early evening before taking carbs (and thats same for rolled oatmeal; sometimes i'll have that for dinner actually) i should try steel-cut someday...
- nielsbot 9mo agoMeta: On oats for breakfast: I much prefer steel cut oats to rolled and/or instant. 1/4 cp is good for breakfast for one person. It's much more interesting if you mix in a small amount of other grains. I like to add a large pinch each of farro, barley and buckwheat. Very important: also add a pinch of salt. Add plenty of water and cook on low while you take your morning shower and get dressed. (20-30 mins)
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- oowahahahah 9mo agoTLDR- lower your cholesterol for 6+ weeks when you eat 300g of oatmeal per-day @ 2 days in-a-row. its more effective than daily oatmeal consumption (80g per day) Oats only! (with some fruit and veg garnish ok) ymmv- Tested on people with high cholesterol only meta: expect to see "cholesterol cleanse diet" in your ai generated ads?