According to dieticians, the oats are one of the cereals most useful to our health. It regulates a fatty exchange, relieves of slags and reduces sugar level in blood. Muesli , oaten porridge, small loafs from oat groats … It is far not the full list of oaten dishes very tasty and useful to health.

For today experts notice that people began to reflect on a healthy way of life, and it it is no wonder! After all the state of environment leaves much to be desired: a gassed condition, dampness and sharp changes in weather. To this list bad habits, stresses and an insufficient dream are added. All together they lead to the fact that our immunity weakens gradually. Our mood improves and energy inflows, if we have considerable quantity of useful nutrients in our diet. To support health maintenance dieticians recommend increasing cellulose consumption. The data of scientific institutes testifies that a modern person’s diet includes no more than 14-15 gramme of cellulose per day in spite of the fact that the daily norm makes 25 today. It is necessary to notice that earlier people consumed from 35 to 60 grammes and, possibly, therefore they had stronger health.

Cellulose (vegetative fibre) represents indigestible parts of plants. One of the major sources of cellulose are cereal cultures, lentil, string bean, nuts, seeds, fresh vegetables and fruits. The secret vegetative fibres consists in reduction of time during which food is in a digestive path. The longer the food is in an organism, the longer it decays. Cellulose accelerates the process of food advancement and promotes deducing of toxins and slags from an organism.

Scientists subdivide cellulose on insoluble and soluble. That and another should be present in a diet necessarily. In some products cellulose is contained at once in two kinds, for example, in oats. Insoluble cellulose restores microflora of intestines and operates as original scrub for stomach, deducing thus all slags. When it bulks up in water, like a sponge, it accelerates stomach clarification. Insoluble cellulose accelerates intestines motility thanks to what the smaller quantity of fats and carbohydrates has time to be soaked up in blood.

Soluble cellulose, beta-glucan, is well-known due to the fact that it lowers sugar level, therefore doctors recommend to people suffering from diabetes including products on the basis of oats in daily diet. The basic advantages of east cellulose is it’s reduction of glucose level and requirement for insulin, and it also reduces secretion of gastric juice. Cellulose fibres, filling a stomach, normalise its work, thereby promotes weight loss. Beta-glucan supervises a fatty exchange, promoting normalisation of body weight, and has toning up effect.
Dieticians assert that foodstuff rich in soluble cellulose is useful both for people with high maintenance of cholesterol in blood, and healthy young men.

Now they learnt to process oats so that to keep cellulose level in a cereal as much as possible, therefore you can compensate food fibres deficiency by means of bran and products containing oats: yoghurts, muesli, dietary bread and small loafs and so forth. For example, three quarters dry oaten flakes cover all daily requirement or a porridge saucer contains a quarter of daily norm of soluble cellulose.

Another advantage of oats consists in the fact that starch of this cereal is slowly digested and slowly acquired. The good portion of porridge for a breakfast is useful also to those who wishe to grow thin or are afraid to gain weight. It provides sensation of satiety for an appreciable length of time, as beta-glucan oats gives a sensation of satiety even from small portions. Carbohydrates do not decay in the top part of a digestive path, thanks to what it does not bring excessive calories. Result: superfluous kgs disappear in the most natural and effective way. For comparison, morning coffee or tea with sandwiches, on the contrary, cause in the majority of people a hunger bad attack between 10 and 11 o’clock. Therefore, having eaten, for example, porridge, a person remains full for a long time and has energy enough for several hours.

Now it is possible to find a set of healthy products in shops, which structure includes oats - these are small loafs, cookies, macaroni, yoghurts, desserts, drinks. The majority of dieticians have agreed in opinion that cellulose is necessary for high-grade work of a human body for a long time. Traditional bread can be changed for dietary small loafs and bread baked with addition of oats (such bread is easier acquired and remains fresh longer) easy. Also you can cook various rolls and cakes, they will be not only tasty, but also useful.

Now there is a huge variety of oaten production with different maintenance of beta-glucan. Thus, concentrated oaten bran contains the greatest percent of beta-glucan – up to 15 %, usual oaten bran - 6 %, and oaten flakes – about 4 %. Grain flakes, remaining completely a natural product, are a modern kind of food. Flakes demand the minimum preparation time (up to 5 - 10 minutes), and some kinds of flakes do not demand cooking in general, what in addition keeps nutritious and curative substances of a product. Along with traditional porridge today ready oaten mixes with addition of oaten bran are popular, other cereals or, for example, dried berries.

It is impossible to deny that fact that oats are a noble product storing in century secrets of health and beauty. Certainly, results will be better, if you support changes in a diet with physical activities. But, having reconsidered the diet, you can make the first step to health and beauty.

Oats recipes

The French salad of beauty

1 table spoon oat flakes,
3 table spoons boiled water,
1 apple (green is better),
1 tea spoon honey,
1 table spoon cream or 2 table spoons milk,
Juice of half lemon (it is possible to replace it with any sour juice),
1 table spoon crushed walnuts, a pinch of cinnamon.

Oaten flakes with marrows

50 g oaten flakes, 250 g vegetable marrows, 3-4 stalks of green onions, 3-4 stalks of garlic, 200 g curdled milk, 1 tea spoon honey, fennel. Peel off vegetable marrows and to cut them in small cubes. Peel off onions and garlic and chop small. Curdled milk is good for shaking up and mixing with honey and crushed greens of fennel. Add oaten flakes presoaked in water to a dawn. Mix everything again and serve up immediately.