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What is the efficacy and function of oats?
Oats have many health-care functions, such as lowering cholesterol, blood sugar, blood fat, lowering insulin level, improving gastrointestinal tract, resisting oxidation, preventing colon cancer, losing weight and delaying aging.

Oats also have the most popular beauty effect for women. It contains a lot of antioxidants and vitamin E, which can remove harmful free radicals in the body and protect skin cells from damage, thus making the skin elastic and shiny. Many functions of oats benefit from the β -glucan contained in it. β -glucan can speed up the operation speed and efficiency of sugar components in the absorption process, reduce the decomposition of liver glycogen, and thus lower blood sugar. Therefore, it can be said that oats are health food for diabetics.

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Taboos for oats:

1, don't eat too much at a time. Don't eat a lot of oatmeal at once just because you want to lose weight quickly. Eating too much at a time may cause stomach cramps or flatulence.

2, the internal fire is strong, and those with liver and lung heat should not eat more. People with strong internal fire and dry liver and lungs eat too much oatmeal, which is easy to cause physical discomfort and should not be eaten more.

3, oatmeal ≠ oatmeal. Oats are not sweet, so many people don't like them. Oatmeal is a mixture of many kinds of grains. Oats only account for a small part or contain no oats, and maltodextrin, creamer and essence are added for taste.

People with digestive system diseases should not eat more. Oatmeal is high in cellulose and difficult to digest. People with digestive system diseases such as gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer and varicose veins at the bottom of stomach should eat less or not.

People's Network-Eating oats has many benefits, but don't forget the taboos.