About two years ago, I started adding oat bran to my daily oat meal in the morning. My blood test has consistently shown that oat bran helps lower my cholesterol levels; more precisely, it lowers only the bad cholesterol (LDL) not the good cholesterol (HDL). And, that's exactly what we want - increasing the HDL/LDL ratio.Similar results have been found in many medical studies. So, how exactly does oat bran work to lower LDL? As you may already know, the liver use cholesterol to make bile acids, which contain cholesterol and are necessary in the digest process. Oat bran is very rich of soluble fiber and forms a gel in the digestive tract like what you see, when it is cooked in the pot. The gel binds onto bile and is eliminated along with the bowel movement. As the result, your body tries to produce more cholesterol to make up that loss by taking away cholesterol from your blood stream.
In addition, oat bran is one form of soluble fiber. As fermented in the colon, soluble fiber forms certain kid of fatty acids, which are absorbed by a vein in the abdomen and transported to the liver, where they inhibit cholesterol production.
I hope these facts give you enough incentives to start adding oat bran to you diet. To be effective, oat bran must be consumed along with a low-fat diet like the Fishtarian diet. If you plan to add oat bran to your muffins, you should consider removing ingredients, such as, york and butter from your recipe. Finally, wheat bran does not produce the same kind of result as oat bran.
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