Is it true plain oatmeal, steel cut or otherwise, is not actually a healthy breakfast?

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Anonymous wrote:Your colleague is an idiot and probably watches too much TikTok. If you load up oatmeal with garbage it isn’t particularly healthy. Meanwhile, kipchoge had oatmeal before his 2023 Berlin marathon performance. https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/nutrition/a45696427/eliud-kipchoge-breakfast/

I seriously doubt the OP is running a marathon after her carb loading.

I do work out in the morning, 4 to 5 times a week. Typically a half an hour of running or treadmill.

Please explain what do you mean by carb loading and avoiding it. Do you mean you should only eat so many grams of carbs per day or just be especially aware of carbs in the morning? The oatmeal alone is 44g, so that is concerning? Plus whatever carbs the banana and splash of 2% milk has. How many grams of carbs is ideal in the morning?

DP: Carbs are the body's fuel. You literally need carbs to function.

Wrong! The idea that carbs are supposed to be part of our diet comes from the companies that make money selling us carbs. Please do a little research on how the food pyramid was constructed and see who benefited from it.
Look at some old pictures of people on the beach before carbs became a normal part of our diet. You won't find a single 300 lb person

When was that?

Humans started farming around 12,000 years ago. PP is correct; if you look at photos of pre-historic hunger/gatherers hanging out at the beach, you’ll see that they are all under 300lbs.

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Anonymous wrote:Your colleague is an idiot and probably watches too much TikTok. If you load up oatmeal with garbage it isn’t particularly healthy. Meanwhile, kipchoge had oatmeal before his 2023 Berlin marathon performance. https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/nutrition/a45696427/eliud-kipchoge-breakfast/

I seriously doubt the OP is running a marathon after her carb loading.

I do work out in the morning, 4 to 5 times a week. Typically a half an hour of running or treadmill.

Please explain what do you mean by carb loading and avoiding it. Do you mean you should only eat so many grams of carbs per day or just be especially aware of carbs in the morning? The oatmeal alone is 44g, so that is concerning? Plus whatever carbs the banana and splash of 2% milk has. How many grams of carbs is ideal in the morning?

DP: Carbs are the body's fuel. You literally need carbs to function.

Wrong! The idea that carbs are supposed to be part of our diet comes from the companies that make money selling us carbs. Please do a little research on how the food pyramid was constructed and see who benefited from it.
Look at some old pictures of people on the beach before carbs became a normal part of our diet. You won't find a single 300 lb person

When was that?

Humans started farming around 12,000 years ago. PP is correct; if you look at photos of pre-historic hunger/gatherers hanging out at the beach, you’ll see that they are all under 300lbs.

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[Anonymous]

I'd worry more about the glyphosate than the carbs. Most oatmeal has a ton of Round Up residue. Google the safe oatmeal. I think there are only about 5 - one is the Whole Foods Organic one. I'd try that one.

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Anonymous wrote:Your colleague is an idiot and probably watches too much TikTok. If you load up oatmeal with garbage it isn’t particularly healthy. Meanwhile, kipchoge had oatmeal before his 2023 Berlin marathon performance. https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/nutrition/a45696427/eliud-kipchoge-breakfast/

I seriously doubt the OP is running a marathon after her carb loading.

I do work out in the morning, 4 to 5 times a week. Typically a half an hour of running or treadmill.

Please explain what do you mean by carb loading and avoiding it. Do you mean you should only eat so many grams of carbs per day or just be especially aware of carbs in the morning? The oatmeal alone is 44g, so that is concerning? Plus whatever carbs the banana and splash of 2% milk has. How many grams of carbs is ideal in the morning?

DP: Carbs are the body's fuel. You literally need carbs to function.

Wrong! The idea that carbs are supposed to be part of our diet comes from the companies that make money selling us carbs. Please do a little research on how the food pyramid was constructed and see who benefited from it.
Look at some old pictures of people on the beach before carbs became a normal part of our diet. You won't find a single 300 lb person

When was that?

50s and 60s

Pretty sure pancakes, waffles, oatmeal, potatoes, rice, biscuits, cornbread, bread/toast etc were cooked and eaten regularly

You would be wrong

So…you are saying people didn’t eat the above foods in the 50s-60s? Um…

It was eaten in much smaller amounts because making those foods addictive had not caught on with corporations jlyet

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Anonymous wrote:Your colleague is an idiot and probably watches too much TikTok. If you load up oatmeal with garbage it isn’t particularly healthy. Meanwhile, kipchoge had oatmeal before his 2023 Berlin marathon performance. https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/nutrition/a45696427/eliud-kipchoge-breakfast/

I seriously doubt the OP is running a marathon after her carb loading.

I do work out in the morning, 4 to 5 times a week. Typically a half an hour of running or treadmill.

Please explain what do you mean by carb loading and avoiding it. Do you mean you should only eat so many grams of carbs per day or just be especially aware of carbs in the morning? The oatmeal alone is 44g, so that is concerning? Plus whatever carbs the banana and splash of 2% milk has. How many grams of carbs is ideal in the morning?

DP: Carbs are the body's fuel. You literally need carbs to function.

Wrong! The idea that carbs are supposed to be part of our diet comes from the companies that make money selling us carbs. Please do a little research on how the food pyramid was constructed and see who benefited from it.
Look at some old pictures of people on the beach before carbs became a normal part of our diet. You won't find a single 300 lb person

When was that?

50s and 60s

Pretty sure pancakes, waffles, oatmeal, potatoes, rice, biscuits, cornbread, bread/toast etc were cooked and eaten regularly

You would be wrong

So…you are saying people didn’t eat the above foods in the 50s-60s? Um…

It was eaten in much smaller amounts because making those foods addictive had not caught on with corporations jlyet

They absolutely eat bread/potatoes/corn/some other starch as part of every meal. But 1) food was often prepared at home 2) portions of everything were smaller 3) people didn’t eat snacks all day long or drink Giant frappichinos daily 4) people did more activity. Just normal life was a lot more physical work than it is now.

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9 pages debating whether freakin oatmeal is healthy. People have lost their minds. 🤣

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Anonymous wrote:9 pages debating whether freakin oatmeal is healthy. People have lost their minds. 🤣

Now 'm freaking out about round up.

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Anonymous wrote:9 pages debating whether freakin oatmeal is healthy. People have lost their minds. 🤣

Now 'm freaking out about round up.

Paul Saladino has entered the chat.

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Anonymous wrote:9 pages debating whether freakin oatmeal is healthy. People have lost their minds. 🤣

Now 'm freaking out about round up.

Paul Saladino has entered the chat.

I used to not freak out about round up and other pesticides and I thought it was kinda weird when people did, but then I started having a horrible reaction to products containing gluten, and the longer I go without it the more I see little health issues I had had for years improving. It caused fatigue, paresthesia, high blood pressure, joint pain, GI issues, and brain fog. I am not going to try organic products that have gluten because I don't want to risk going back to that misery, but I know a lot of people who cannot eat gluten in the US can eat gluten in Europe. I believe that grains cultivated in Europe contain different or fewer pesticides.

I do eat gluten-free steel cut oats. But I'm still experiencing some symptoms and I'm considering cutting those out too (even though cutting out gluten totally resolved my joint pain, brain fog, and high blood pressure). So I dunno, round-up might be a cause for concern.

[Anonymous]

Here's another pesticide to worry about in oats.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cheerios-quaker-oats-infertility-chemicals-in-cereal-ewg/

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Anonymous wrote:I'd worry more about the glyphosate than the carbs. Most oatmeal has a ton of Round Up residue. Google the safe oatmeal. I think there are only about 5 - one is the Whole Foods Organic one. I'd try that one.

It's a little scary how common glyphosate is. Even the EU just renewed its approval for glyphosate as an herbicide (and the EU tends to be a little more stringent than the US for some of these things).

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Anonymous wrote:I go through oatmeal phases when the plain packets of Better Oats steel cut oatmeal are on sale at Target. I'll have two packets with a cut up banana and some cinnamon, mix of water and low fat milk. I do not add any sugar, honey, syrup, or anything like that. I thought it was a sensible breakfast. But a smart colleague randomly said its a massive misconception that oatmeal is a healthy breakfast item. Wait, what? I am unsure if she meant literally any oatmeal or just something about the quick microwavable packets I'm eating.

Here's the ingredients and nutrition label of the kind I typically buy -- my serving is two of these:

If you love glyphosate and antinutrients, oats are for you!

[Anonymous]

Oatmeal has always given me grinding stomach pain so I regard it as unhealthy for me. Plus it doesn’t have any real protein. It’s not my best option.

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Anonymous wrote:9 pages debating whether freakin oatmeal is healthy. People have lost their minds. 🤣

Now 'm freaking out about round up.

Paul Saladino has entered the chat.

Mock if you want. The rising rates of cancer don’t come from nowhere. I have a friend who is slowly dying of a fairly rare cancer and her sister is currently in remission from a related cancer. Their doctors theorize that they were exposed to something while they were growing up on the family farm. Both are in their forties.

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Anonymous wrote:9 pages debating whether freakin oatmeal is healthy. People have lost their minds. 🤣

Now 'm freaking out about round up.

Paul Saladino has entered the chat.

Mock if you want. The rising rates of cancer don’t come from nowhere. I have a friend who is slowly dying of a fairly rare cancer and her sister is currently in remission from a related cancer. Their doctors theorize that they were exposed to something while they were growing up on the family farm. Both are in their forties.

There is a huge gulf between eating oatmeal and growing up on a farm that may have been using significant pesticides.

Paul Saladino is a nut case whose existence is predicated on selling books and clicks. If you want oatmeal that wasn’t treated with glyphosate it’s easy and inexpensive to buy. But you might be getting “anti-nutrients” and other “plant defense chemicals” which is all nonsense. There are many other click baters on TikTok and elsewhere and some of the people here seem to have become enthralled with their message-which was the whole design in the first place.