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It has been said that taking nothing for breakfast is not good for the body. After a King’s meal at night, it’s necessary to eat at breakfast time. It has taken us too long to have another meal after we’ve eaten our supper. We should have eaten our meal every 6 hours. But in night time after we eat our dinner, it takes us another 11 hours to take our next meal. That is to take our breakfast. The term so suggests “break fast” for we’re breaking the long-hour of not eating. It is a form of fasting. Thus, it is necessary that we should eat our morning meal.
In my practice, I used to eat an instant oatmeal with milk and banana for my breakfast. I have noticed that I have been doing this for more than three years already. I haven’t found or experienced anything wrong with my body function. I worked normally as a school head of my humble school. During recess time in the morning, I have to take a light snack usually Arroz con Caldo (rice chicken soup) and a piece of bread. Then by 12:00 noon, I have to take my hearty lunch.
I’m already 65 years old and the oatmeal I eat hastens digestion and good bowel movement. I eat a regular meal for lunch, then at night I eat a little as the idiom said, “King’s meal”. Oatmeal is a term used in the US and in some parts of Canada. Actually, it is “white oats” and in our local dialect, we call it “linugao” when it is already boiled or cooked. In other countries, it is “oat porridge”. I am using an instant oatmeal. It is already precooked and dried. I just add a hot water sweetened with honey and added a cut a piece of ripe banana.
It has pointed out that by daily consumption of a bowl of oatmeal, our blood cholesterol is reduced. It could also lessen the risk of heart disease with a low-fat diet. It has more B vitamins. The presence of beta-glucan, carbohydrates and water-soluble fibre in oatmeal make the slow digestion. It maintains the blood-glucose levels in the body.
I am a hypertensive and have a maintenance medicine to lower and maintain my blood pressure. I am a high boiled rice consumer. Cooked rice is rich in carbohydrate. I have to eat oatmeal for that matter. Now, I have the peace of mind of what I am eating every morning for my breakfast. What about you, especially the senior citizens?
Researched by Gil Camporazo, the author
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I am a fan of oatmeal and that is my diner sometimes.It is easy to cook and we can save hehehehe,plus very nutritious. But my sister does not eat oatmeal because according to her doctor, that is bad for those having arthritis.It also contains much carbo, so I just take 6 tablespoons during dinner.
I think I am not into such breakfast. I think it is a good meal for those people who have heart problems. As they said, it is good for the heart. In fact, I am not a breakfast eater.
My husband believes in the whole “oatmeal reduces cholesterol” thing. He eats more oatmeal than I do. I'm sort of a grits and butter lady. :)
I don't like oatmeal I find it tasting funny or flat if I may so meaning it has no taste, but I guess it's different with different people. I would rather have porridge if I really needed to have oats. I agree with you that breakfast is th3 most important meal of the day.and I like the way you have put it that we fast everyday never thought about it that way. Break fast very interesting indeed.
I was advised to take oats which I was told will help reduce my ldl level of cholesterol. I did take it for several months. I got fed up and gave up. Now there is a masala oats by Quaker which I have just started taking. I hope I will not get fed up with this as well.
I know what you mean by fasting for many hours. In my case it is more as I do not eat dinner but have an early snack. I go to bed after I have had hot milk with honey.
For me, oatmeal really works and has lots of benefits to the body. My father is diabetic before he used to eat rice but i notice some alarming changes in his body like swollen feet which is early symptoms of diabetes due to high level of body sugar and cholesterol and possibly deterioration of the nervous system. What i do is i feed him with oatmeal through out the day to eat coupled of some fresh milk and banana together with his medicine supplement everyday. His swollen feet are now back to normal.
We are not really into oats for our breakfast because we are still stuck to the traditional rice (any kind of cooked rice) for the morning, but I think its time for us also to realize the importance of oats of in the table especially in the morning.
The combination of Banana, milk and oats is a better combination when it comes to breakfast. It must improve one's health in a short time span. What about adding a a little amount of honey to this combination? I would like to add the use of honey instead of sugar. Do you add sugar to milk?