The Oat Bran Cookbook

ISBN: 9781558530164

定价: 30.00

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WHAT IS OAT BRAN?
Contrary to popular belief??? oat bran has been around for a long time.
It is not something new. The by-product of milling oats??? oat bran is the
outer husk or covering found on oat seeds. For many years??? this husk
has been removed as oats were processed for human consumption.
For the most part??? this \"leftover\" part of the oat has been put into pet
food as a filler agent and has not been part of most people s daily diet.
All this began to change when??? in 1977??? a metabolic research team at
the Veterans Administration hospital in Lexington??? Kentucky. began
its research. They were studying the effect of high fiber diets on dia-
betics??? concentrating on whether a high fiber diet (one containing mix-
ture of soluble and insoluble fibers) would help in controlling blood
sugar and the need for insulins. Through these studies it was dis-
covered that increasing fiber in the diet was effective in controlling
blood glucose levels??? as well as serum cholesterol levels.