I’ve read that eating oatmeal every day can lower your cholesterol, but just how effective is it? Would you have to eat tons and tons of it for it to be effective? Or is it how regularly you eat it that lowers your cholesterol?
Oatmeal by itself won’t lower your cholesterol drastically, but it does help. See, many people believe they can just eat one bowl of oatmeal in the morning and continue to eat all that bad-for-you stuff and it’ll bring your cholesterol way down. Not true. Oatmeal is just one member of a group of foods that help — that group being whole grain breads/cereals/pasta — so if you REALLY want to get your cholesterol levels down you need to make major changes and eat more whole grains and more of the other foods that help, like eggs, nuts, fresh fruits/vegetables, and lean meats. You’d also have to cut back on fast food, junk food, processed flour/sugar, and saturated fat. So to answer your question: Eating a lot of oatmeal probably would bring your cholesterol levels way down, but eating it regularly and making other healthy diet choices will also lower your cholesterol.