By now you know that eating oat fiber reduces your blood cholesterol but getting the recommended three grams of soluble oat fiber a day can be a bear -- that's three bowls of instant oatmeal.
What to do?
How about a new product caled Oat Vantage. Oat Vantage is a pill, a dietary supplement which seems to work. It's a concentrated source of oat bran which in prelilminary studies significantly reduces serum cholesterol.
Results of a double-blind study released this month showed an average drop of 13 points in LDL the bad cholesterol, while HDL -- the good cholesterol -- stayed the same. And it works in women too.
Women were fairly represented in this study; they haven't been in others so we haven't been quite sure how dietary initiatives affect them.
Two Oat Vantage capsules twice a day provides 1.5 grams of soluble oatmeal, the equivalent of 1.5 cups of instant oatmeal. You can find it in health food stores, vitamin shops and other retail outlets.
