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[starr]

The latest one shows a guy who lowered his cholesterol by 7 points after eating quaker oats daily for a month. That's such a little blip, I don't know why they bothered to air the commercial. Total cholesterol can fluctuate that much in a single day.

[mitkat]

I saw this commercial, it made me laugh a litle. I thought the exact same thing. I suppose if you made slow cook oats a regular part of your diet, a la shepard and funk, it could improve things, but I think the market they're trying to reach is not the "I'm taking serious time out of my life to examine my health" people. Are they even slow cook, or just instant?

[Matt]

The most effective way of lowering total cholesterol has to something like calorie restriction. It brought my total cholesterol down to 109mg/dl !

I also eat quaker oats everyday, doubt that had much of a huge impact over cr though.

[starr]

They make instant products and then they make this: http://www.quakeroat...cfm?productid=4 I don't know if it's slow cook or not (I don't eat oats) but they imply it's more of a 'whole food' than the other varieties.

Matt, you also have a natural tendency toward low cholesterol, don't you?

[Centurion]

I guess theyre betting most people care enough about cholesterol to want to lower it conveniently (note the huge market for little drinks and cholesterol lowering margerine) yet not enough to actually know anything about it or make huge diet changes. They figure most people just wont know how little a drop this is

[Matt]

Matt, you also have a natural tendency toward low cholesterol, don't you

Yeah... Even on a complete junk food diet like half a packet of high trans fat high gi biscuits every morning for over a year didn't raise my cholesterol or glucose to high levels. At the time when my diet was awful I had a fasting glucose reading of 81mg/dl LoL