Oat Bran: Food for the 21^st century.  

Oat bran has countless positive effects on your health. To begin with, it:

 - Improves heart health

 - Helps lower cholesterol levels

 - Reduces blood sugar and helps prevent diabetes 

 - Promotes regularity and makes intestinal transit easier

 - Creates a nautural feeling of fullness, which results in weight loss

By now, you all know that oat bran is a staple of the Dukan Diet, if not its very foundation. In addition to lowering cholesterol and preventing diabetes, it's the only food on the market today that truly promotes weight loss.

 During a recent conference I gave in Madrid, a young Spanish student stood up at the back of the auditorium and asked me this straighforward question: "In your opinion, what is the healthiest food available to consumers today?"

Somewhat embarrassed, I replied off the top of my head: "Oat bran!" and to my great surprise, the student in question had never heard of this food! 

On the plane back to France, I thought about my somewhat rushed answer. I thought of other major foods: broccoli, the anti-cancer food par excellence, tomatoes that are rich in lycopene, kiwi with its record-breaking Vitamin C content, salmon with its omega-3 oils, and soy for menopausal women.

But after I'd given thought it over, I was absolutely convinced: oat bran really was my top choice, because its health benefits were by far the greatest. First and foremost, it is the only food that can claim to have a real slimming effect. In addition, it excellent at reducing cholesterol. It is extremely effective at slowing down sugars metabolism, delaying sugar absorption that is so toxic for diabetes patients. What's more, it's also great for regulating intestinal transit, and, last but not least, it helps in preventing colon cancer. The icing on the cake is that it can be used in many delicious recipes that are totally unexpected in a slimming diet, such as cakes, pancakes, muffins, pizza dough, and even bread.

Oat Bran's slimming powers

How has such a simple food staple - a grain husk, relegated to feeding horses and stuffing mattresses for so many years - become one of the healthiest foodstuffs on the planet and “the only food with a real slimming action?”

Its claim to fame lies in its high fibre content. Oat bran fibre is rich in β-glucan molecules, which give it two beneficial effects that act on two separate levels in the digestive tract.

Dr. Pierre Dukan, Nutrition specialist

Oat bran is all the rage in France nowadays. Dr. Pierre Dukan’s observations and research over the last five years have given him tremendous insight into the fight against obesity. Slimming is made easier thanks to oat bran's twofold properties. The first is that it creates a natural feeling of satiety and fullness. The other is far more important: the presence of oat bran in the intestinal bolus leads to calorie loss that can be repeated over the long term.

How much oat bran for my phase?

1.5 Tbsp / day during the attack phase

2 Tbsp / day during the cruise phase

2.5 Tbsp / day during the consolidation phase

3 Tbsp / day during the stabilisation phase

Dukan Diet Oat Bran

milling and sifting index M2bisB6

100% organic, Dukan oat bran is the Dukan Diet's cornerstone. It slows sugar metabolism, reduces cholesterol and calories consumed, and it is also the only food with a real slimming effect!

Current studies have shown that the nutritional properties of oat bran depend on its absorption capacity and its viscosity, which transform it into a vertiable viscous sponge in the stomach and small intestine.

Its efficiency depends on the way oat is processed, i.e., its milling (grinding) and its sifting (separation of the bran flour).

Oat bran's health benefits and role on weight-loss

It is widely known that oat bran has health benefits in cardiovascular prevention (controlling cholesterol levels), in preventing diabetes as well as in regulating intestinal transit. For 9 years, the Dukan Diet has featured it as a fundamental part of his diet’s benefits. Studies have shown that stools of consumers of oat bran are richer in calories than those of non-consumers.

These properties are linked to its milling (the size of its particles) and sifting (the separation of the flakes). Oat bran which has been too finely or too coarsely milled loses its health benefits; oat bran which is not sifted sufficiently releases more simple sugars. In other words, all brans are not the same, and most are milled and sifted in the traditional way solely for culinary use. When used for its health benefits, medium milling and thorough sifting are essential.

This combination is defined by the index M2bisB6, which we have imposed as a requirement to manufacturers.

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