The healthy benefits you can get from Oatmeal

October 13, 2015 painremedies Diabetes

th (5)Often times, many have been neglecting the health issues in every food that we eat.

We are very content if food fit with our taste buds and never minding the health benefit it will give us or, if this food will just make things worse to our health.

In Asia, rice is a staple food in every tables. Next to rice is noodles.  And these two are very rich in carbohydrates that not only give us enough energy, but more pounds in our weight.

In the Northern Americas and in Europe, oat meal has been their breakfast favorite and they are very conscious about what they eat, and they know oat meal is one of the healthiest food in the market.

Oat meal is known in North America as oat porridge. It came from the oat grains that were ground, crushed and rolled.

These are some of the health benefit that you can get from eating oat meal regularly:

  • LOWERS CHOLESTEROL – Oatmeal is rich in soluble fiber that you can also th (4)find in apples, pears, prunes and barley. This fiber prohibits absorbing low-density-lipoprotein, or LDL, the bad cholesterol. Oatmeal also has beta-glucan that helps fight the bad cholesterol.
  • A LOW CALORIE FOOD – even if you eat a bowl full of oatmeal, it will prevent you from craving to eat more.
  • ANTI-OXIDANT – Oatmeal contains avenanthramide, an anti-oxidant compound that fight free radicals that causes high-density lipoproteins, or HDL, the good cholesterol. It is also a defense from LDL cholesterol and reduces the risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
  • BOOSTS IMMUNE SYSTEM – Oatmeal contains beta-gluten that helps neutrophils spread in the infected area quickly and also enhances the ability to eliminate the bacteria.
  • REDUCES THE RISK OF DIABETES – Being a good source stablizing the blood sugar, oatmeal’s high fiber and complex carbohydrates slow down food to convert into sugar. With its high levels of magnesium, oatmeal maintains the use of glucose and insulin secretion.
  • PROTECT FROM HEART AILMENTS – Specially to men, a bowl of oatmeal in the morning lowers the risk of any heart failures.
  • REDUCES HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE – Fiber found in oatmeal is very heart friendly. And this include the low risk of developing high blood pressure. Older women are tend to develop high blood pressure and oatmeal is highly recommended in their daily diet.
  • GLUTEN FREE DIET – People with celiac disease cannot eat gluten (proteins th (6)found in wheat endosperm), though oatmeal contains a small amount of gluten, it contains avenin, a protein that is toxic to the intestinal mucosa.
  • HARDENING THE ARTERIES – The antioxidants in oatmeal produces molecules that hardens the artery walls thus preventing any cause of clogging and heart ailment.
  • LIGNANS – Oatmeal contains lignans that protect our body from heart diseases and cancer specially breast and other homone-dependent cancers.
  • MAINTAINS PROPER WEIGHT – With the fiber and calories oatmeal contains, it can prolong your food craving.  A good oatmeal diet prevents obesity.

But always remember that you can attain all of these benefits not by just taking oatmeal for a week or month, but you need to practice eating oatmeal regularly.

If you can avoid adding sugar to your oatmeal, a good healthy fruit like apples, oranges or strawberries are good sugar alternatives.

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