What makes muesli or breakfast cereals so good for our body? In short, the reason is the various necessary components they contain: vitamins (including В vitamins, which are quite rare but so essential for us), mineral substances and dietary fibres.
In more detail, here are some facts about the positive effects of whole-grain products:
- Consumption of whole grains and cereals improves bowel action, decreases the risk of constipation and restores the skin structure.
- Studies have shown that women, whose diet contains 20 to 36% of whole-grain products, have a lower incidence of diabetes, hypertension and cardio-vascular diseases. Dietary fibres contained in those products prevent build-up of cholesterol plaques in arteries.
- Since whole grains are digested longer than the refined ones, they support a stable sugar level in blood. Besides, certain cereal products like flax seed, wheat bran and rye contain special substances which help prevent some types of cancer caused by hormonal dysregulations (breast and prostate gland cancer).
- Analysis of seven studies by the Wake Forest Medical Center (USA), which covered over 285 thousand people, have revealed that daily consumption of whole-grain products reduces the risk of cardio-vascular diseases development by 21%.
- Whole-grain products are essential for those who wish to lose weight, since they contain large quantities of both dietary fibres and nutrients. Therefore, a large part of fats and carbohydrates is not digested, while the feeling of hunger does not emerge.
At that, the body receives large quantities of useful biologically active substances, and the energy balance is practically not disturbed. So, weight loss goes on in a very natural way!
Those are the secrets of the tasty, useful and fast-cooking classical porridge substitutes.