/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10037579
Halfway correct. What makes Oatmeal good is how filling it is keeping you from eating more. The no sugar is good, but people tend to add milk and sugar to make it edible anyway (plain old oatmeal will make you not wanna eat it more than once, and you shouldn't have to "force" a diet because you won't stick with it if you don't enjoy it).

Sugar is a big enemy, but everything is fine in moderation. Oatmeal helps you moderate better by making you full longer. Brown rice has the same effect (switch your rice to brown, by the way). Fat isn't an enemy though, and in fact America is a perfect example of why fat is required in a healthy diet - after the "low fat" grocery fad popped up and health sources started giving it a bad rap, we saw an INCREASE in obesity due to everyone thinking "If I cut far from my diet, I will be less fat!" And then proceeding to buy foods that have "low fat" but compensate with the bland ass flavor by adding loads of sugars. Whomever named it "fat" did an extreme disservice to future generations - it should have been named "lipids" so that it doesn't have the canotation to the layman of "this will make me fat!" (Our digestive system is way more complicated than this, and you NEED lipids as a dietary requirements).

The bottom line is you need to BALANCE your diet. Everyone who says "eliminate this and that and this" will lead you down the road every fatty faces; you'll be miserable with what you eat and still be fat. Your fridge will be filled with products they guests will not want to fucking touch when they come over, you'll be over-eating to compensate for your body's natural cravings for essential nutrients that you're denying it, and you'll be thinking "well maybe I need to work out more" and inevitably that will fail too because the fight against obiesity is fought and won on the dinner table. Find balance, eat what you enjoy in moderation, take calories into account but don't obsess. Get more greens and fiber. Enjoy food.