subject: The Importance of Fiber for Your Healthy Heart (III) [print this page] The Importance of Fiber for Your Healthy Heart (III)
One of the fiber sources is oat. Oats have numerous uses in food; most commonly, they are rolled or crushed into oatmeal, or ground into fine oat flour. Oatmeal is chiefly eaten as porridge, but may also be used in a variety of baked goods, such as oatcakes, oatmeal cookies, and oat bread.
Oats are also an ingredient in many cold cereals, in particular muesli and granola. Oats may also be consumed raw, and cookies with raw oats are becoming popular.
Compared to rice that contains dissolvable fiber about 0.1 grams per 100 grams and wealth that contains 2.2 grams of dissolvable fibers per 100 grams, oat contains higher fiber (5.1 grams per 100 grams). So, this food can be a choice for high fiber diet.
The dissolvable fiber can reduce the cholesterol level in your blood, so you can reduce the risk to get coronary heart disease. People who get obesity problem can also combine oat with low cholesterol food. Oat can be used in the form of wealth porridge, biscuit, and bread.
How does oat reduce the cholesterol level in your blood? The following is its short summary.
1. In lever, cholesterol is changed into gall acid and taken down small intestine to help digest the fat of food you consume.
2. If you consume oatmeal, in small intestine, its dissolvable fiber forms gel that binds fat, cholesterol, and gall acid.
3. Because of being bonded by the dissolvable fiber of oat in the form of gel, a portion of gall acids cannot be absorbed through the wall of small intestine. Then, the acid is secreted through large intestine, so its amount in lever decreases.
4. To replace the lost gall acid, level will pull the cholesterol from blood to produce it.
5. As a result, the total of cholesterol levels will decrease.
6. If the cholesterol level of blood decreases, the risk for you to get coronary heart disease can be reduced.
