BEIJING, Jan 16 (XINHUA\/APP):A new study has shown that oatmeal can help healthy bacteria grow in people’s guts.<\/p>\n
A high cholesterol level is a significant risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). Oats and oat products have been proved to reduce cholesterol.<\/p>\n
In the new study, researchers from Southeast University in China and other research institutes enrolled 210 Chinese adults with mildly high cholesterol from Beijing, Nanjing, and Shanghai. <\/p>\n
They asked them to have 80 grams of oats or rice every day for 45 days and measured their lipid and fatty acid levels and micro-biota levels in their feces.<\/p>\n
The results were published in the journal Frontiers in Immunology. The study showed that the oats group had more cholesterol-dropping results. <\/p>\n
The people who had oats every day had their total cholesterol level lower by 5.7 percent and low-density lipo-protein cholesterol (also called bad cholesterol) down by 8.7 percent. The number in the rice group was only 3.0 percent and 3.9 percent.<\/p>\n
The study also found that oats consumption increased the abundance of bacteria previously shown to protect against metabolic disease, obesity, and CHD.<\/p>\n
The researchers said their study demonstrated that oats could help healthy bacteria grow in the gut. It then contributes to its cholesterol-lowering effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BEIJING, Jan 16 (XINHUA\/APP):A new study has shown that oatmeal can help healthy bacteria grow in people’s guts. A high cholesterol level is a significant risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). Oats and oat products have been proved to reduce cholesterol. In the new […]<\/p>\n
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