Does Porridge Make You Fat?

Does Porridge Make You Fat?
Of Course Porridge Oats Don't Make you Fat!

For years now, many weight loss experts, dietitians,
doctors and slimming consultants alike have been telling us
how Porridge Oats or easily the best option for our
breakfast.

Granted most of us now know that breakfast is the most
important meal of the day, followed closely by our choice
of post-workout nutrition, but why?

Well, you see, porridge oats are what are know as a Low
Glycaemic Carbohydrate, meaning that it enters the
bloodstream and is converted into sugar quite slowly, thus
providing a slow release of energy throughout the day.

Hopefully you all know packaged breakfast cereals that are
so common in many cupboards are just processed rubbish that
I guarantee will make you fat- yes even Bran Flakes, All
Bran and the like are very poor choices

Don't let the fact that they have 'added vitamins and
minerals' fool you into thinking your morning bowl of
cereal is healthy. It's not!

After being rendered into a kind of slurry paste, the
grains that were used to make the flakes that you eat every
morning were passed under high pressure and high heat
through a pipe (a process that renders the grains mildly
toxic) before being sprayed with synthetic chemicals and
cut into their desired shapes. This process, known as
extrusion, basically removes much of what was once
nutritious from the food.

Haven't you ever wondered why your cornflakes turned to
mush when you leave it too long? Real food doesn't do this!

So, what is THE best breakfast?

Well, believe it or not it’s a plain old omelette!
And before you game me the ‘aren’t eggs bad for
your cholesterol?’ line the amount of cholesterol in
eggs had no effect on your blood cholesterol. They are a
great from of protein.

Anyway, here’s a study to back it up (you know I love
my studies)

It’s a study done by Dr. David Ludwig at Harvard
University; he studied three groups of overweight
individuals. Feeding each group a breakfast containing and
IDENTICAL number of calories. One group ate instant oats;
one group ate steel cut oats (the type that take 45 minutes
to cook); and the third group had a veggie omelette and
fruit.

They then ate a lunch identical to the meal they had eaten
for breakfast, then after lunch they were told to eat
whenever they were very hungry for the rest of the day. Now
the results here blew me away!

Many of you would think that the healthiest meal would have
been the oatmeal right? It was actually the omelette!

The group that are the instant oatmeal ate 81% more food in
the afternoon than the group that had the omelette. Not
only were they hungrier but the omelette group also had
lower levels of insulin, which means there body was using
fat as energy!

The steel cut oats were slightly better than the instant;
the group still ate 51% more food the rest of the day than
the group who ate the omelette.

The conclusion here for me is that the kind of calories and
not the AMOUNT of calories you consume have a HUGE impact
on how much weight you lose or gain, because different
types of food are metabolized in different weighs- in short
PROTEIN ALWAYS WINS!

Now I’m not an advocate of the Atkins diet which is
little or no carbs but what I am a fan of is low REFINED
carbohydrate, so eat your oats, your brown rice and your
veggies but ALWAYS eat them with protein!

So go get those eggs for breakfast and watch those afernoon
munchies dissapear!

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Paul Mort is the North East’s Number One personal
trainer and fat-loss expert and is head trainer and owner
of precision fitness - the only company in the north east
that can guarantee results 100%. Paul has featured on
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