Oat (Avena sativa) is a type of cereal grain. People often eat the plant’s whole seeds (oats), outer seed layers (oat bran), and leaves and stems (oat straw).
Oats might reduce cholesterol and blood sugar levels, and help control appetite by making you feel full. Oat bran might work by keeping the gut from absorbing substances that can lead to heart disease, high cholesterol, and diabetes. Oats seem to reduce swelling when applied to the skin.
Oat bran and whole oats are used for heart disease, high cholesterol, and diabetes. They are also used for high blood pressure, cancer, dry skin, and many other conditions.
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Oats have some excellent health benefits helps to lower LDL (bad cholesterol) while not affecting HDL (good cholesterol.
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Oats are high in dietary fiber.
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Because Oats lowers LDL heart disease is naturally reduced.
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Oats contain beta-glucan which spreads the rise in blood sugar over a longer period of time, essential for avoiding Diabetes complications.
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The phytochemicals in oats are believed to reduce your risk of cancer. Hormone-related cancers such as breast cancer, prostate, endometrium, and ovarian cancer are especially affected because of the phytoestrogen compounds, called lignans contained in oats. The insoluble fibers contained in oats are believed to reduce carcinogens in the intestinal tract.
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Your daily dose of oats may help to reduce hypertension (high blood pressure), thus reducing the risk of cardiovascular problems.
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The high fiber content of oats assists in the speedy passage of stools through the gut, thus relieving constipation.
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The high fiber content of oats helps to make you feel full for longer thus reducing your risk of putting on weight.
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Oats provide carbohydrates and calories for energy which alter the metabolism thus enhancing performance.
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Oats help improve the immune system because of the many different nutrients that it contains such as essential fatty acids, amino acids, vitamins such as thiamin, folic acid, biotin, pantothenic acid, and vitamin E, minerals including zinc, selenium, copper, iron, manganese, and magnesium.
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Oat beta-glucan appears to speed up the response of the immune system to infection.
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Some of the nutrients contained in oats include the following fiber, minerals, vitamins, and amino acids: Beta-glucan, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorous, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc, Copper, Manganese, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Thiamin (B1), Riboflavin (B2), Niacin, Pantothenic acid, Vitamin B-6, Vitamin B-12, Retinol, Tryptophan, Threonine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Lysine, Methionine, Cystine, Phenylalanine, Tyrosine, Valine, Arginine, Histidine, Alanine, Aspartic acid, Glutamic acid, Glycine, Proline and Serine.
