Oatmeal: benefit and harm for adults and children

Probably everyone heard a dietician's advice that it is useful to eat this dish in the morning. Adherents of a healthy diet necessarily eat a plate of this dish for breakfast. What do you think it could be? We will not torment you for a long time! This is oatmeal porridge, the benefit and harm of which will be discussed in this article. So, let's get started.

The benefits of oatmeal porridge are obvious:

• Lowers cholesterol;
• Regular use prevents the formation of blood clots;
• Oatmeal , the benefit and harm of which have been proven by scientists, is used in both sports and dietary nutrition, this is due to the fact that it helps to build muscle and get rid of fat;
• Perfectly cleanses the body and is recommended for people who have stomach problems;
• Improves thinking and memory;
• It is rich in vitamins (A, B, K, PP, E) and minerals (iodine, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, iron, calcium).

Harm

In any case, the main thing is not to overdo it, because if you consume a large amount of a single product, then in the body certain substances accumulate. Oatmeal porridge, the benefits and harm of which are known to nutritionists, is no exception. Consuming it more than once a day leads to the accumulation of phytic acid, which removes beneficial enzymes from the body (calcium and others). Minerals are not digested at all and simply leave the body in a natural way. There is a disease of celiac disease, which is not yet fully understood, but every 200th inhabitant of the Earth suffers from it. If you have this disease, then oatmeal porridge is strictly forbidden to you, since in the patient's body the proteins obtained from cereals are not completely cleaved. This leads to the fact that the intestine is clogged with toxins, and metabolic processes are violated in the body, as well as the absorption of proteins and carbohydrates.

Oatmeal for children

If the child is regularly fed oatmeal, then by 6-8 months he may develop the aforementioned disease. It is necessary to closely monitor the psychomotor skills of the baby, behind his chair and the density of the abdomen. With an excess of proteins in the body, the child becomes sluggish, apathetic, intestinal infections appear, and his stool becomes gray.

Doctors recommend to feed the baby only after his bones are strong enough. Also for a child, oatmeal should not become an allergen, which happens from time to time. In addition, to ensure that the porridge does not harm the baby, it is necessary to comply with the conditions for its preparation. It should be borne in mind that everything belonging to the category "quick cooking" was subjected to a preliminary heat treatment and is not oatmeal as such. Her usefulness is reduced to zero. So buy only natural oats. From it your baby will get all the substances necessary for growth and development.

Kinds

Oat porridge, the benefits and harms of which were discussed above, can be of several kinds. For example, if the package has the name "Extra", then the flakes in it are thin, and cooking does not take much time. That is, it is an oatmeal of instant cooking. In the case of "Hercules" will have to wait a little. In order to cook the porridge to your liking, you can use a cookbook. It is quite enough recipes even for discerning gourmets. And at last we will give advice on how to speed up the time of its preparation. To do this, we cook the oatmeal porridge in a multivariate, and not in a saucepan on a gas stove. Bon Appetit!