Oat Bran Muffins w/Stevia Glycerite

[Roadstr]

This recipe makes about 15 - 60 gram muffins. So, 3 muffins contain 1 cup or oat bran... that amount is what has been shown to lower cholesterol, LDL and raise HDL and a 5 day supply if no one else eats them. :cry: But, that's OK because I know they are good for them.
If you look at my post on CardioChek (http://proteinpower.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7002) device you can see that it doesn't take long for the changes to occur from 4/3 to 4/11. Of course I was exercising daily for 45 - 90 minutes a day, taking plant strerols and limiting saturated fats to below 20 grams a day.

ECC = 14 grams
Calories = 95
Protein = 5 grams
Carbs = 17.7 grams
Fiber = 3.7 grams
Fat = 4.5 grams
Saturated Fat = .7

5 C Oat bran, raw
2 T Baking Powder
2.5 C Milk, 365 fat free milk
.5 tsp Stevia Glycerite (little more for sweeties)
4 T Oil, olive (sometimes I use sesame)

Bake at 420 deg.F. for about 35 minutes or until toothpick tests dry.

[Ammy]

The recipe sounds VERY yummy as I LOVE oat bran muffins, but I just can't give up that many carbs for even ONE muffin (and there is no way I could eat 1/2 a muffin :o) let alone three a day! Is that what you are suggesting?

Maybe I'll give the recipe a try by cutting the oat bran in 1/2 and using another flour like hazelnut?
I'm not concerned about lowering my cholesterol (It's currently at 108) but I do love and miss bran muffins!!

[laughingW]

Doesn't Dr. Eades say grain fiber is really hard on the gut, regardless of its effect on TC, which we don't watch anyway?

[Roadstr]

The recipe sounds VERY yummy as I LOVE oat bran muffins, but I just can't give up that many carbs for even ONE muffin (and there is no way I could eat 1/2 a muffin :o) let alone three a day! Is that what you are suggesting?

Maybe I'll give the recipe a try by cutting the oat bran in 1/2 and using another flour like hazelnut?
I'm not concerned about lowering my cholesterol (It's currently at 108) but I do love and miss bran muffins!!

Amy, I bought one of those muffin tins that make the small muffins from Wal-Mart. They hold about 1/3 of these muffins or 20 grams. That will give you about 5 ECC's.
W, It's probably a lot harder on the esophagus, by the time it gets down there... to quote my oncologist... "it's all mush anyway". So, if it doesn't bother you going in it probably won't bother you going out. If it does, does then don't eat it.

[Karole]

Too high carb count for me, besides I did the "8 Week Cholesterol Cure" years ago when I still bought into the Cholesterol is bad bad bad theory. That was before I found out that each and every cell in our body uses and needs the stuff. I use the flax and almond meal muffin recipe and it is really low in carbs and very high in fiber if that is what a person is looking for.

[Roadstr]

Did you know Karole that each cell can produce cholesterol and that there is no feedback mechanism to control how much is in you blood. I'm not saying too much cholesterol is bad, just saying that's why some have more than others. It's pretty much controlled by your activity (exercise) and what you eat when we get older. For young folks, there body seems to control it, it's only when you get older (of course there are exceptions).
Flax and almond meal makes a great pancake and I'm going to try it for muffins... thanks for reminding me.

[Gaelen]

Did you know Karole that each cell can produce cholesterol and that there is no feedback mechanism to control how much is in you blood. I'm not saying too much cholesterol is bad, just saying that's why some have more than others. It's pretty much controlled by your activity (exercise) and what you eat when we get older. For young folks, there body seems to control it, it's only when you get older (of course there are exceptions).

Roadstr--the number of errors in this post are truly stunning.
I am going to lock this thread to further comments in the hope that you will take seriously the formal request to stop advancing and defending this type of mis-information.

For the record:
'Each cell' is not capable of producing cholesterol.
Cholesterol is ONLY produced in the body within and by the LIVER. Hepatic (liver) cells are unique to the liver.
Other cells, via lipoproteins, transport cholesterol. They don't, can't produce it.
Exercise does affect cholesterol levels in the body, as do genetics. What you eat (i.e. dietary cholesterol) has only minimal effect by comparison. OTOH, what you eat (i.e. a diet which addresses/eliminates insulin resistance, aka low carbing) has been demonstrated to affect serum cholesterol levels.
There is increasing (daily) evidence that young people's bodies do not protect them from the ravages of elevated cholesterol in the presence of excess carb consumption.

That 'there is no feedback mechanism' to control levels of cholesterol in the blood is also false, for two reasons.
First, cholesterol as such isn't *produced* by or in the blood, so that's not where a feedback mechanism would be effective.
Second, specific gene pathways and enzymes in the liver, where cholesterol is produced, serve as the 'feedback mechanism.' It's simplistic to distill the science down to this statement, but here goes: Cholesterol is its own feedback mechanism.

But don't take my word for it; here's a recent study which identified the nuclear receptor and gene pathway.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=21971