Can anyone explain or direct me to the mechanics of how cherrios reduces cholesterol?
My thought is if you eat oats instead of meat for breakfast you still have the milk cholesterol to deal with which would be lower than meat fat. But that’s not science.
I thought that they were saying it "could" lower cholesterol. If this is the case, then there are several avenues such as replacing meat/eggs, and the effect of the oats in the system where it could possibly help lower it. If they are saying it "will" lower it, then they probably need to stop.
Cheerios alone might have a “scrubbing” effect on free cholesterol in the body such as triglycerides. They act as sponges, in a way. However, what they don’t tell you is that unless you’re eating your Cheerios with skim milk, you’re still consuming milk fat.
That being said, it’s been shown in recent dietary journals that consumption of Omega 6’s, such as those found in oats, bran, barley, etc., have an inflammatory effect on the cardiovascular system.
America’s diet changed drastically in the 1980s due to an overzealous campaign that promoted fats as making us fat. Dietary science over the last 15 years has proven that’s not only false, but that what we replaced those fats with are what’s actually contributing to our obesity.
For instance, prior to the 1980s, frying food was something that wasn’t done so often. Nowadays, you can’t go to most restaurants and find a non-fried item on the menu. Supposedly coating chicken in breadcrumbs and frying it was healthy because the breadcrumbs have fiber and the chicken is low-fat? Right.
When you eat, bile is secreted into your intestines to help digest your food. Bile is made by your liver, and it contains a lot of cholesterol (some of which is actually MADE by your liver even when you did not eat cholesterol).
Bile is a “detergent” that “emulsifies” fat in the food you eat so you can absorb it.
As your food goes through the intestines, the food is partly absorbed, but your body also RE-ABSORBS back your cholesterol-containing bile.
SOLUBLE FIBER is something in foods like Cheerios. Bile sticks to it, and then cannot be re-absorbed so well, so the cholesterol-containing bile passes out of your body in the stool instead of being re-absorbed.
Soluble fiber therefore is a one-way ticket out of your body for some cholesterol, EVEN IF YOU DID NOT EAT ANY CHOLESTEROL! Soluble fiber does seem like a healthy thing to eat, especially for some people.
Cheerios DO IN FACT have that soluble fiber effect of lowering cholesterol. So why can’t GM state a fact about their product? The government should keep its nanny goat nose out of the free market!
(Oh, so, “it’s science” whatever that means.)