Comment by Marsymars

Comment by Marsymars 2 days ago

5 replies

It's quite a bit of volume, but it's "only" about 1000 Calories if it doesn't have any oils/sugar added.

I'd guess the easiest way to get it down would be to just blend the oats into water without cooking so you have something that you can just drink like water.

briHass a day ago

Wasn't that basically what Soylent was? With a ground up multivitamin and some oil drizzled in?

brador 2 days ago

And this is the real reason.

The oatmeal put them on a crash diet of 1000 calories a day. And filled them so they didn’t reach for non reported snacks.

  • FrancisMoodie 2 days ago

    They had a control group who also went on a reduced calorie deficit but without oats and found that the oats eating group had a much higher decrease of cholesterol, it's in the article.

    • raydev 2 days ago

      Oats group saw a decrease of 10% but the number for the control group is not given.

  • _flux 2 days ago

    Two-day crash diet can reduce LDL levels for 6 weeks?