Healthy Food

Various research shows that reducing bad cholesterol level (Low Densy Lipoprotein/LDL) can reduce the risk of coronary heart disease affected. And one way to reduce cholesterol in the blood is consume fibrous food. Fiber in food is said can protect the heart because it is able to bind fat and remove them through fesses. One type of fiber that is good to consume is in oat that containing betaglucan fiber.

In the stomach, fiber turns to jelly and able to bind fat, then fibers will also binding results out of them through the bile and fesses. In normal circumstances, the empty gall bladder should be filled in again. Then lever will draw cholesterol in the blood to form new bile. Thus the cholesterol content in the body can be reduced.

To get the maximum results someone should consume as much as 70 grams of oat every day. The amount must be right, because if excessive, the result will not be maximize.

After 30 days consume oat with measure 70 grams per day, the average will decrease cholesterol as much as 15 percent. In 100 grams of oat are 370 calories, 11 g protein and some other nutrients. So that efforts in reducing cholesterol more optimal, it is important to do sports at least 3 times a week.

Oat is a cereal which is quite important in a subtropical region. Fascicle used as food and feed, especially horses. Oat is a domestic’s form of semi-wild species of Avena fatua that have been cultivated at the time of the iron era and is the principal source of food in the West Asia and Europe.