Oatmeal Nutrition Facts You Need  to Know

By: Wendy A Belanger

 

"In your effort to eat healthy and provide a good diet for your family, you have probably considered making oatmeal. You should now commit to the food that is often considered one of the healthiest choices available. Oatmeal is an almost magical food, given its many health benefits, yet it somehow remains one of the least eaten available foods in the world. The USDA estimates that only 5% of the worlds entire oat crop is actually eaten by humans.

1)Oatmeal helps you lose weight.

Oatmeal is appealing to health experts because it actually reduces your craving for foods that are not good for you. It's known to be the food that "sticks to your ribs." meaning it simply gives you a fuller feeling for a longer amount of time than simple carbohydrates.

2)Oatmeal nutrition leads to a healthier heart.

All of the nutrients in oatmeal are exceptionally good for you and your ticker. Your heart needs all of the B vitamins, calcium, iron, and vitamin A it can get. In addition oatmeal provides you with high levels of fiber and very low levels of fat and no cholesterol.

3)Oatmeal nutrition actually gets rid of cholesterol.

Not only does oatmeal help lower one of the leading causes of heart disease, studies from all parts of the U.S. have recently confirmed what several dozen studies have shown: oatmeal can eliminate your bad cholesterol without affecting your good cholesterol.

The oatmeal nutrition facts all point in the same direction. If you are looking for a food that can help you begin your day with lasting energy, can help you lose weight, and can help in the fight against heart disease and other anxiety-inducing diseases, eat oatmeal!"   Matthew Kayser

"And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth and it was so." Genesis 1:11