Breakfast : oats or eggs? Surprise!

from Devon's Online Supermarket

This is from a study done by Dr. David Ludwig at Harvard University; he studied three groups of overweight individuals. Feeding each group a breakfast containing and IDENTICAL number of calories. One group ate instant oats; one group ate steel cut oats (the type that take 45 minutes to cook); and the third group had a veggie omelette and fruit.

They then ate a lunch identical to the meal they had eaten for breakfast, then after lunch they were told to eat whenever they were very hungry for the rest of the day. Now the results here blew me away!

Many of you would think that the healthiest meal would have been the oatmeal right? It was actually the omelette!

The group that are the instant oatmeal ate 81% more food in the afternoon than the group that had the omelette. Not only were they hungrier but the omelette group also had lower levels of insulin, which means their body was using fat as energy!

The steel cut oats were slightly better than the instant; the group still ate 51% more food the rest of the day than the group who ate the omelette.

The conclusion here for me is that the TYPE of calories and not the AMOUNT of calories you consume have a HUGE impact on how much weight you lose or gain, because different types of food are metabolised in different ways- in short PROTEIN ALWAYS WINS!

UPDATE Hmmm, I see that this is the basis of the South Beach Diet...and I'm not sure that the original research has been accurately reported...will have to find out more...