Mike Adams
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 Certainly, oats can be healthy if eaten in their whole grain form, but almost no oat product at any grocery store offers that: they mostly contain instant, processed oats that are both easy to cook and much higher on the glycemic index scale than whole grain oats.
In other words, when the FDA approved health claims for oats, they made no consideration for the form of those oats. Manufacturers can take an otherwise healthy whole grain and convert it into a high-carbohydrate grain that's digested much like white flour. That's primarily what you get when you purchase instant rolled oats. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
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 You can consume that amount painlessly by having hot oat bran or oatmeal cereal for breakfast along with an oat bran muffin or two. But remember, many, if not most, commercial oat bran muffins contain lots of calories, as much as 500 or more each. If you decide to go that route, you can supplement your oat bran intake by breading your chicken cutlets with it or via using seasoned pure oat bran in your bakingit makes a tasty crunchy coating. You can also use oats instead of bread crumbs in turkey loaf, or substitute oat bran for white flour. |
Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D.
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 Oat Bran
Oat bran is the outermost part of the whole oat or oatmeal kernel. It is removed from the oat kernel through mechanical processing. The
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved for oat bran and oatmeal the first food-specific health claim, which reads, "Soluble fiber from oatmeal as part of a low saturated fat, low cholesterol diet may reduce the risk of heart disease." One-half cup of fiber-rich oat bran a day has demonstrated the ability to lower total cholesterol by an average of 25 mg/dl (milligrams per deciliter) in a variety of populations. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Smash an oat grain with a steel roller mill, however, which produces what is known as old-fashioned or rolled oats-or worse yet, quick-cooking oats-and you have a paper-thin membrane that can be instantly digested into-guess what? Sugar. Even worse, grind up that oat into oat flour to make a cheery little "0" out of it, and wham-instant sugar.
Now let's look at the largest crop in the United States. If you grind corn kernels into cornmeal for baking, it too can be rapidly digested into simple sugar, activating the "Store Fat for Winter" program. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 The prolamin of oats, avenin, accounts for only 5-15% of the total seed protein, as opposed to gliadin, which comprises about 50% of wheat proteins [77]. This oat prolamin is thought not to elicit the same immune response as gliadin and is thought by some to be safe for patients with celiac disease to ingest [78]. The risk that oats are contaminated with wheat in the United States is great, because oats are often crop-rotated, harvested, and milled with wheat. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Don Felton never misses 74 cup of oat bran and 74 cup of quick-cooking oatmeal cooked in the microwave with water for 3 minutes, then topped with Equal. Evelyn Oswick has also eaten the same breakfast for twenty years. She calls it her "best meal of the day."
Evelyn's Best Meal of the Day i banana
1 cup old-fashioned rolled oats raisins apple juice
Slice banana into the bottom of a microwave-safe bowl. Add i cup oats to bowl. Sprinkle raisins over top and add apple juice to cover. Zap it in the microwave for i minute 30 seconds. |
Bradley J. Willcox, D. Craig Willcox, and Makoto Suzuki
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 Oats or oat groats. Oats are often used in breakfast cereals and baked goods. oat bran is high in soluble fiber, which can help lower blood cholesterol levels, so it's a heart-healthy choice. Rolled oats (groats) can be used in many dishes like fish cakes and can also be used to thicken soups and sauces.
Ricehasmati. Native to Pakistan and India, this aromatic, usually white rice has a flavor and aroma similar to that of roasted popcorn or nuts but a sweet taste. When cooked, the grain swells only lengthwise, resulting in long, thin grains. |
Mike Adams
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| Instead, look for steel cut oats, or oat groats. These offer the best health benefits. Even then, you have to eat them sparingly, since they do provide a hefty dose of carbohydrates.
Of course, it's wise to completely avoid any flavored oat products such as instant breakfast oatmeal packages. All of these contain refined sugars, chemical sweeteners, or both. They have no place in a healthy diet.
Packaged meats (sodium nitrite, MSG)
As I have already discussed, packaged meats should be carefully checked for ingredients like sodium nitrite. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 As a flower essence, oat is helpful for those who are filled with uncertainty and dissatisfaction and are unable to find their life's direction.
Edible Uses
The oat grain is a common food staple and is high in protein. It has a light, mild, creamy flavor. The grain can also be sprouted. An edible oil can be pressed from the seed. The seeds are sometimes roasted and used as a coffee substitute.
Oat tea has a pleasant, mild, slightly sweet flavor. A tea made from oat seed or straw mixed with nettles is a particularly mineral-rich brew. |
Elaine Magee
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 More needs to be known about oat phytochemicals, but researchers from Tufts University in Boston completed a clinical trial using an avenanthramide-rich oat extract and found that the oat phytochemicals worked synergistically with vitamin C to protect LDL cholesterol from oxidation. Oxidized LDL becomes a lot more harmful and more likely to encourage plaquing (or fat deposits) in the arteries.
Lower blood pressure. In many studies, eating oats has been shown to help reduce blood pressure, too. |
Laurie Deutsch Mozian, M.S., R.D.
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| Oats
Oats and oatmeal are rich in oat bran, one of the first foods approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to promote a specific health claim. One-half cup of oat bran, which is found in three-quarters of a cup of dry oatmeal, has been shown to be effective in lowering total blood cholesterol when combined with a diet low in saturated fats and cholesterol. The average drop in cholesterol experienced is 25 mg/dl (milligrams per deciliter of blood). One-third cup of oatmeal daily lowers total blood cholesterol levels by 5 mg/dl. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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| OAT
Botanical Name
Avena fatua (wild oat), A. sativa (cultivated oat) Family
Poaceae (Grass Family)
Etymology
The genus name, Avena, is Latin for "nourishing." The common name oat derives from the Old English term for the grain, ate. |
| A tea made from oat seed or straw mixed with nettles is a particularly mineral-rich brew.
Other Uses
Oat husks are not only used to stuff bedding but are said to have a sedative effect. The straw can be used to make thatching, paper, and mulch. The hulls are also used to make construction boards and filters in the brewing industry. The hulls of oats are used in the production of furfural, a chemical used to make many industrial products such as nylon, glues, rubber tread, and lubricating oils.
Oatstraw tea can be sprayed in the garden to inhibit striped cucumber beetle infestation. |
| As a compress, oat can help heal stitches and relieve the pain of kidney stones.
As a flower essence, oat is helpful for those who are filled with uncertainty and dissatisfaction and are unable to find their life's direction.
Edible Uses
The oat grain is a common food staple and is high in protein. It has a light, mild, creamy flavor. The grain can also be sprouted. An edible oil can be pressed from the seed. The seeds are sometimes roasted and used as a coffee substitute.
Oat tea has a pleasant, mild, slightly sweet flavor. |
Michael Castleman
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 Unfortunately, some food manufacturers add a tiny amount of oat bran but promote it in big type on their packaging. Look for foods that list oat bran as the first or second ingredient on the label. If you prefer oatmeal, check labels for fiber content and select the one with the most.
Finally, oat foods help reduce cholesterol only in the context of a low-fat diet. A sprinkle of oat bran on a piece of cheesecake won't keep you out of coronary intensive care. And watch out for oat-bran muffins. They are often so high in fat that they do more harm than good. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Pick ME, Hawrysh ZJ, Gee MI, et al. oat bran concentrate bread products improve long-term control of diabetes: a pilot study. J Am Diet Assoc 1996;96:1254-61.
40. Braaten JT, Scott FW, Wood PJ, et al. High beta-glucan oat bran and oat gum reduce postprandial blood glucose and insulin in subjects with and without type 2 diabetes. DiabetMed 1994;11:312-18.
41. HallfrischJ, Scholfield DJ, Behall KM. Diets containing soluble oat extracts improve glucose and insulin responses of moderately hypercholesterolemic men and women. AmJ Clin Nutr 1995;61:379-84.
42. Tappy L, Gugolz E, Wursch P. |
Andrew Chevallier
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 Oat bran lowers cholesterol, and an oat-based diet may improve stamina (see Research, below Oats, and oat straw in particular, are tonic when taken medicinally.
Oat straw is prescribed by medical herbalists to treat general debility and a wide variety of nervous conditions. The grains and straw are mildl antidepressant, gently raising energy levels and supporting an over-stressed nervous system. Oats are used to treat depression and nervous exhaustion, as well as the profound lethargy that results from multiple sclerosis, chronic neurological pain, and insomnia. |
Dianne Onstad
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 They still contain everything that is in the whole oat, retaining most of their B vitamins even through ptocessing. With theit fairly long cooking time they are best used for tasty, chewy cereals; however, cooked steel-cut oats can be blended with various flours for baking.
Whole oats are unprocessed and retain the beneficial bran and germ. This whole form stores well without
In ancient plant lore an offering of oats showed an appreciation for someone's music; this evidently was an allusion to the shepherd's pipe, the popular "oaten straw" of pastorals. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They also have an oat Vanilla Goji bar that will absolutely blow your mind. Check out the ingredients:
Raw Organic Almonds, Raw Organic oat Groats, Raw Organic Agave Nectar, Raw Organic Dates, Raw Organic Goji Berries, Raw Organic Flax Seeds, Raw Organic Coconut Oil, Raw Organic Mesquite Meal, Raw Organic Vanilla Bean, Raw Organic Celtic Sea Salt, Raw Organic Nutmeg, Raw Organic Cardamon, Raw Organic Fennel.
(The Cardamon / Nutmeg mixture will send you on a taste sensation vacation, believe me. Unless you're big into raw foods, you've probably never tasted food like this. |
Michael Pollan
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 The Year of Eating oat Branalso known as 1988served as a kind of coming-out party for the food scientists, who succeeded in getting the material into nearly every processed food sold in America. oat bran's moment on the dietary stage didn't last long, but the pattern now was set, and every few years since then, a new oat bran has taken its star turn under the marketing lights. (Here come omega-3s! |
The Editors of FC&A
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| Two recent studies determined that adding two servings of oats, either in the form of oatmeal or oat bran cereal, can reduce your cholesterol.
In fact, the FDA recommends getting four servings of foods containing beta-glucan each day to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. One serving of beta-glucan equals .75 grams, so four servings would total 3 grams. Foods meeting that requirement can display this heart-healthy claim.
Many health experts recommend getting between 20 and 35 grams of fiber a day, and it doesn't all have to come from oats. |
Isadore Rosenfeld, M.D.
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| If your reading was 200 milligrams, it may fall to 194; if your level was 266, oat bran can drop it by 9 percent. But to eke out even a slight drop in these numbers, you must eat 50 to 100 grams of oat bran a day. You can consume that amount painlessly by having hot oat bran or oatmeal cereal for breakfast along with an oat bran muffin or two. But remember, many, if not most, commercial oat bran muffins contain lots of calories, as much as 500 or more each. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Leaves, Stem and Root: oat is an annual, light green grass with a bushy root. The stalks are 60 to 100 cm high, smooth and glabrous. The linear-lanceolate tapering, flat leaves are in double rows and the leaf sheath is clasping. The ligula is short, ovate with triangular pointed teeth. The leaf blade is linear-lanceolate and is 45 cm long by 5 to 15 mm wide.
Habitat: Oats are cultivated worldwide.
Production: Wild oat herb consists of the fresh or dried above-ground parts of Avena sativa, harvested during flowering season. The herb is air-dried. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Evenly distribute the oat mixture over the top of the Blueberry Compote. Bake for 5 minutes and serve warm.
Variation: For 1 serving, use approximately A cup of the compote, 1 tablespoon of oats, '/> teaspoon of brown sugar, 2 teaspoons of chopped walnuts, and V2 teaspoon of butter. Follow the instructions using 1 dessert-sized ramekin.
This muffin is a portable meal in itself. It is packed full of hearty SuperFoods such as oatmeal, walnuts, and blueberries with an added punch from the whole grain flour and driedfruits. grain. |
John A. McDougall
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 Wild rice žOats*
* Oats have been demonstrated in multiple studies to be free of toxic proteins and tolerated by most (but not all) people with celiac disease, but there is worry that commercial oat products may be contaminated with wheat. other foods: žRoot vegetables, like potatoes, yams, sweet potatoes, and cassava root (tapioca) žAll legumes (beans, peas, and lentils)* ?All green and yellow vegetables žAll fruits
*Legumes make extra gas, sometimes causing bloating and bowel discomfort.
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Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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| Oat bran is taken from the outer layer of the de-furred fruit. To make rolled oats, the de-furred fruit is treated with steam, then crushed. oat straw consists of the dried, threshed leaf and stem of Avena sativa. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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 In a study of an oat plant, for example, the host DNA contained the full sequence of the foreign gene (plasmid), plus a small stretch in which oat DNA was mixed with foreign plasmid DNA, plus a partial copy of the plasmid, plus another section with oat and plasmid sequences scrambled together.11 DNA on either side of the insertion appeared to contain rearrangements or deletions. Two additional insertions were also identified elsewhere in the DNA. One had a rearranged section of the plasmid (296 base pairs), scrambled plant DNA on both sides, and a deletion of 845 base pairs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These might include a bowl of oatmeal with extra oat bran, a fresh apple (which contains plenty of fiber), whole grains that are well-chewed, or fiber supplements such as glucomannan. You might also add cinnamon to your oatmeal or breakfast cereal, since cinnamon helps regulate blood sugar and effectively lowers the glycemic index of anything you eat during the same meal.
However, it should be noted that pomegranate sugars are somewhat unique in that they do not spike blood sugar levels as easily as other fruit sugars. |
Jeffrey M. Smith
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| In a study of an oat plant, for example, the host DNA contained the full sequence of the foreign gene (plasmid), plus a small stretch in which oat DNA was mixed with foreign plasmid DNA, plus a partial copy of the plasmid, plus another section with oat and plasmid sequences scrambled together.11 DNA on either side of the insertion appeared to contain rearrangements or deletions. Two additional insertions were also identified elsewhere in the DNA. One had a rearranged section of the plasmid (296 base pairs), scrambled plant DNA on both sides, and a deletion of 845 base pairs. |
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