Reader Hyman used this website's "Contact Me" on November 16, 2021 to ask me, "Are people with anemia really unable to eat grain rice? " ? " answered his question. Because the article Hyman sent to me is the article "Five Grains and Mixed Grains! 5 kinds of people who eat wrong will hurt their health " published by "Health Magazine" on February 1, 2010 , and this article contains a lot of wrong information , so I'm going to discuss one of them, "Oats raise triglycerides". First, I need to copy the relevant parts of this article as follows: He (meaning Jiang Wenwen, a professor at the Institute of Food Science, National Taiwan University) is especially worried about the oatmeal that is now popular.
Although oatmeal is a good cereal with various health popular database benefits, some human studies have reported that although oatmeal can reduce total cholesterol and bad cholesterol (LDL), it does not reduce triglycerides (a type of cholesterol). ), may instead increase triglycerides. When manufacturers promote oatmeal-related products with the advantage of lowering cholesterol, they are not entirely correct. "It's misleading!" he said bluntly. For example, a study published in the Nutrition Journal in 2007 found that over a six-week period, an experimental group that ate 6 grams of beta-polydextrose (the soluble fiber found in oats) per day and a control group that did not eat oats Compared with the control group, the bad cholesterol decreased more, but compared with the experiment at the beginning, the triglycerides of the subjects in some experimental groups increased a lot, while the control group that did not eat oatmeal, the subjects' three. Glycerides were decreased.
At the same time, the changes in triglycerides between the experimental group and the control group were statistically significant, meaning that there was really a "big difference". "If you eat it again, it will explode!" Jiang Wenwen raised his voice and reminded that at least people with high triglycerides should consider not eating oatmeal, so as not to benefit from it and suffer from it first. Because he has encountered several cases of people eating oatmeal trying to lower blood lipids, but the triglyceride increased instead. He had the opportunity to speak up at the international seminar, and he also took the initiative to communicate with the industry, hoping that the industry would not exaggerate the oatmeal. It is hoped that the industry, government and academia will face up to this issue and study it well.