Administrators FlyJ Posted February 9, 2015 Administrators Share Posted February 9, 2015 You try to eat breakfast every single morning—it’s the most important meal of the day, after all, especially if you’re trying to lose weight. But if your stomach always seems to start growling around 10 a.m. and you can’t resist that donut in the break room, it’s time to swap your cereal for something a little more substantial. Eating oatmeal for breakfast makes you feel fuller, longer, and significantly reduces the number of calories you eat at lunch, according to new research published in the Annals of Nutrition & Metabolism. Researchers split 36 men and women into three different groups: One group ate oatmeal for breakfast, another ate corn flakes, and the third group skipped the meal altogether. Throughout the next three hours, study participants were asked several times to rate how hungry they felt, and they also gave blood samples to track their levels of glucose and insulin. Then they were given a liquid lunch and told to drink until they felt full. Just as researchers had predicted, the people who ate oatmeal were less hungry throughout the morning and ate about 31 per cent fewer calories at lunch—despite being given the same number of calories at breakfast as the corn flakes group, says study author Allan Geliebter, PhD, a research psychologist at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital in New York. So, oatmeal keeps you full—that much we sort of already knew. But what the researchers did find surprising was that the people who ate cereal for breakfast consumed just as many calories at lunch as the people who hadn’t eaten a thing. That’s probably because the cold cereal caused their blood sugar to spike very quickly—then drop just as quickly, says Geliebter. And by the time lunch rolled around, that group’s low blood sugar left them famished. What was keeping the oatmeal-eaters full? Their breakfast stayed in their stomachs longer. Here’s how they know: Researchers added acetaminophen—yes, the same thing you take when you have a headache—to the cereal bowls and measured it in the blood; by tracing it, they could see how long the acetaminophen (and with it, the food) stayed in participants’ stomachs. “We found that acetaminophen levels peaked for the oatmeal group much later than they did for the other groups,” says Geliebter. “That tells us the oatmeal stayed in the stomach longer, most likely because of its high fibre content.” Source 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savvy Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 In other words,if u ain't got an oatmeal...skip breakfast and just take paracetamol :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abystacy Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 Haha lol. @ savvy very funny indeed. Where's my paracetamol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skills Posted February 9, 2015 Share Posted February 9, 2015 I'm a huge fan of oatmeal ...didn't realize it has such health benefits :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
relangel Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Oatmeal has a lot of fibres but its also known to increase sexual libido . . . especially night or in a cosy atmosphere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dequeen Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Not a big fan of breakfast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators FlyJ Posted February 20, 2015 Author Administrators Share Posted February 20, 2015 Oatmeal has a lot of fibres but its also known to increase sexual libido . . . especially night or in a cosy atmosphere. Lol...how lovely! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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