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Date: 03 Jun 2006 11:32:02
From: Sherman
Subject: cholestrol-lowering properties of barley
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Brewers,
Is there a way to use the cholestrol-lowering properties in unmalted
barley to create a beer that fights cholestrol even a little bit? Can
oatmeal stout have this effect as well? What about oatmeal AND
unmalted barley? Any recipes?
Beer is far more refreshing than oatmeal.
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Date: 03 Jun 2006 12:16:29
From: Droopy
Subject: Re: cholestrol-lowering properties of barley
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Both barley and oats contain a bit more beta glucan than other grains.
Use flaked barley or oats and do not do a beta glucan rest.
Of course, alcohol is really bad on your plasma triglycerides. Alcohol
and sugars are converted by the liver into triglycerides (and more
specifically saturated fatty acids) ...when then go to adipose tissue.
And you get a beer gut.
So you drink alcohol and your body turns it into saturated fatty acids.
Now saturated fatty acids are the building blocks for cholesterol. So
drinking alcohol is often a cause for high serum triglycerides and
cholesterol.
The main route of cholesterol loss in the body is through the diet.
Cholesterol is transformed into bile acids. When you eat fat, the bile
acids solubilize the fat (just like diswashing detergents cut the
grease in your dishes) and allow you to digest it. That is why people
that have had their gall baldder removed get sick if they eat too much
fatty food....they can no digest it all. Anyway, most of the bile is
reabsorbed and reused byt the body. Some of it is lost as well. Beta
glucans mimic fats and absorb some of the bile salts and increase the
loss of cholesterol through diet.
The bottom line, is although you can marginally increase some of the
beta glucans in yorur diet through drinking an oatmeal stout, the
effect of alcohol and residual sugar in the beer will more than
counteract the benefit of the beta glucan.
Think of it this way as well. You use a full lb of oatmeal to make
somewhere around 50 12 oz beers. Not all of that beta glucan is
solubilized either. Now you can eat that same amount of oatmeal for
breakfast over a week or two. Which one do you think will give you a
more significant reduction in cholesterol? Even in all the studies
that have been done, eating all that oatmeal only gives you a drop in
cholesterol of 5-15 points or so.
The effect of beta glucan in beer would be insignificant at best.
Sorry.
Sherman wrote:
> Brewers,
>
> Is there a way to use the cholestrol-lowering properties in unmalted
> barley to create a beer that fights cholestrol even a little bit? Can
> oatmeal stout have this effect as well? What about oatmeal AND
> unmalted barley? Any recipes?
>
> Beer is far more refreshing than oatmeal.
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Date: 03 Jun 2006 20:01:53
From: Dick Adams
Subject: Re: cholestrol-lowering properties of barley
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Droopy <Droopy68516@yahoo.com > wrote:
>Sherman wrote:
>> Is there a way to use the cholestrol-lowering properties in unmalted
>> barley to create a beer that fights cholestrol even a little bit? Can
>> oatmeal stout have this effect as well? What about oatmeal AND
>> unmalted barley? Any recipes?
> ...
> The bottom line, is although you can marginally increase some of the
> beta glucans in yorur diet through drinking an oatmeal stout, the
> effect of alcohol and residual sugar in the beer will more than
> counteract the benefit of the beta glucan.
> .....
Party pooper!
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