Rinse & rePeat
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The last year of Ray’s life is when he and I conversed through email. He talked about the digestive benefits of oats and also it’s detriments. Here is the end of a study he sent me at the end of one such email…Ray was eating oats the last year of his life. Did he change his mind?
He completely missed the part that the soluble fiber in beans stimulates bile and then grabs onto it while moving it out to the toilet.
“…the study. Rats consuming oat bran had
greater body weights (P< 0.002), produced
much larger concentrations of all SCFA,
including butyrate, in both the proximal and
distal colon (P< 0.0001), had more acidic
luminal pH values (P< 0.0001), but also had
significantly more development of colon
tumors (P< 0.03). Alternatively, rats
consuming wheat bran produced more
typical molar ratios of the SCFA (65:10:20),
had a relatively greater concentration of
butyrate than propionate, and produced a
larger volume (P< 0.05) and more bulky stool
than the rats fed oat bran. The results of this
study support other evidence that an acidic
luminal pH is not protective in and of itself,
and that diets containing wheat bran
are protective against colon cancer
development. In addition, these data show
that large luminal butyrate concentrations in
the distal colon alone, as were present in the
rats consuming oat bran diets, are
not protective of tumor development.”