Porridge

coccinelle | 13:04 Sat 15th Jan 2011 | Food & Drink

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I have often read that porridge is good to lower bad cholesterol, but surely this would only be true if eaten with a food which contains fat so stopping the fat being absorbed by the body and making it into cholesterol. As porridge is eaten at breakfast this might ring true if eaten before a full english breakfast but surely not on its own. Can anybody enlighten me?

dukan diet

I remember after the war my gran used to make a pie with sheep lungs

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society

Many people have oats / oatmeal porridge which is loaded with fibre. It's proven that these fibres flush out the bad fat which cause cholesterol build up.

But, then again it all depends on the kind of porridge being eaten...

coccinelle

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OK society but it can only 'flush out' the bad fat in that same meal can't it? By night time comes that porridge is well on the way through the system. Eating porridge for breakfast as your only breakfast isn't helping any cholesterol problems. I agree with the kind of porridge unless it's the real Quaker Oats one of course.

ethandron

here's a partial explanation coccinelle:
http://ezinearticles....Cholesterol&id=668793

boxtops

No coccinelle - it's not related to the same meal at all, oats are excellent at lowering cholesterol. You'd be defeating the object if you ate the full English at the same time. Cholesterol is in your bloodstream so takes a while to get there from your food.

mike11111

It is good for you, but it's been a while now since I had my oats.

society

Better start having your oats again, Mike. ;-)

coccinelle

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Thank you ethandron, that's really interesting. I didn't think oatmeal could move so slowly and be effective so long. So back to my oats then (I used to have porridge as a kid and hated it!). Wonder where that expression came from mike...

mike11111

It has vague connections with the notion of a tethered horse being given a nose bag full of oats.

boxtops

I've always understood that it comes from "sowing wild oats", e.g. spreading seed willy nilly

Mamyalynne

Boxy reported for saying willy!! LOL

ethandron

i quite like porridge but rarely eat it, i've never eaten breakfast and there just doesn't seem to be a convenient mealtime to have it. my other half has a bowl of it every morning with a spoonful of bran mixed in, and sometimes replaces an evening meal with a bowl too, followed by a banana. couldn't do that myself, rather have some beans on toast or something else savoury.
naughty boxy ;)