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Comment by bob1029

8 hours ago

Oatmeal is amazing at stabilizing blood sugar levels. It's like adding inertia to the power grid.

If you are eating any kind of snack cracker or refined wheat product, I would suggest replacing with oats and then reporting back on results after one week.

I think the beneficial effects are strong enough to completely offset the impact of things like occasional bowl of ice cream and package of nerds gummy clusters. This is what gets me to power through. If there wasn't some kind of strong upside no one would be eating this stuff willingly.

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leoedin  5 hours ago

If I eat a wheat-based breakfast (eg toast or wheat flakes), it's almost guaranteed that by 11am I'll be feeling fairly weak due to low blood sugar. Eating oats for breakfast doesn't have that effect at all.

I don't like oatmeal (porridge), but whole oats in muesli are pretty good.

hamburglar  4 hours ago

> If there wasn't some kind of strong upside no one would be eating this stuff willingly.

Are you kidding? I love the stuff. I used to eat it daily as a kid and had gotten out of the habit, but when I had high cholesterol and my doctor told me to eat a lot of it, it was like being prescribed a treat.

dzhiurgis  7 hours ago

How do you reconcile this with fact that oatmeal has higher glycemic index than ice cream?

  • bitshiftfaced  3 hours ago

    Ice cream / milk has saturated fat, which is something that people who are watching their cholesterol might want to limit. Fat helps slow digestion, which is beneficial for the glycemic index. It depends on the ice cream too. Steel cut and rolled oats' glycemic load is not that bad, especially when eaten with berries, nuts, etc.

    Also, using ice cream as the benchmark is misleading, as people might view it as a junk food and think that its glycemic index is higher than they otherwise would, but actually its glycemic index is low/moderate, depending on the type.

    • slumberlust  1 hour ago

      I can't imagine Chubby Hubby being low...but it's so good. All things in moderation I suppose.