Made from millets and whole grains, oats are a pretty common breakfast cereal popularly consumed for its nutritional benefits and weight loss properties. Considered healthy, oats are likely to be eaten during the day that to for breakfast as they provide a great source of energy early in the morning.
Made with the healthiest grain, oats are energy giving, fibre-rich cereal supplement that comes from the oat millet that is further rolled or broken to form the various varieties of oats that are now available in the market. They come in various varieties and flavours but are commonly used to encourage people to not skip their breakfast and eat high energy oats to boost their energy levels to be sustained throughout the day.
Even though oats are healthy and nutritious and have played a greater part in promoting weight loss with the right balance of nutrition, oats have often been misused and mislead to do so for all kinds of health conditions that has made its consumption more than what is considered healthy.
People that are keen on losing weight and building muscles are seen to be overeating oats in all forms in order to lose weight and promote muscle building. They use oats in almost every meal they consume and restrict the intake of any other food group, developing various deficiencies and nutrition depletion from the body.
These practices enable them to lose a tone of stored healthy nutrients and muscle mass that keeps on deteriorating with prolonged intake of oats only and avoiding the intake of any other food item.
7 Disadvantages of eating oats daily
Although oats are immensely health alternative to any other breakfast cereal and also promotes weight loss, complete breakfast food, provide energy, sooth our body and also boost metabolism. But as we get keener on sticking with oats and oats only, we tend to avoid the maintenance of a proper nutritional balance in our body.
A healthy body is maintained by the incorporation of a bunch of healthy food groups that help fulfil the requirement of all essential nutrients that provide a complete nutrition to our body. But as excess intake of oats takes place with avoiding other nutritious food options, it may lead to certain disadvantages of consuming oats on a daily basis,
1. Malnutrition: when oats are consumed on a normal level on a daily basis, they tend to provide a healthy amount of carbohydrates and energy to the body and help in a better metabolism. But as we get into the overconsumption phase of the oats to achieve a specific health goals oats tend to result in malnutrition of the body. As a carbohydrate rich source when consumed with less to no other fruits and seeds, oats are nothing but a high energy giving food product that does not provide any other kind of nutrition at all, causing a malnutrition state.
2. Weight gain: As oats are high on carbohydrates and provide instant energy, when they are not paired with any other nutrition dense food, they tend to reverse the effect and lead to a gain in weight. Energy synthesis is basically done by breaking done carbs into glucose and so when there is an excess amount of carbohydrate intake and not as much use of the abundance of energy, the energy produced is stored in the body as fats and in return increase the body weight.
3. Anaemia: Anaemia is the term used when there is a deficiency of haemoglobin that happens due to the less intake of iron supplement in the diet. When we consume oats in excess amounts in the body, we tend to eliminate the addition of essential nutrients and minerals that help in various other body functions like how iron helps in the production of haemoglobin in the body that furthers help in the oxygen supply throughout the body.
4. Bloating/Gas problems: There is very common complaint that surfaces with the people who regularly eat oats as their breakfast as well as snack meal in a day. Being high on carbs and no ither nutrient, oats tend to bulk their quantity to double with the presence of a little dietary fibre, that is indigestible and causes the body to feel gastric and bloated. This bloating can only be minimised by the addition of some soluble fibre and antioxidants in the body that would help in the digestion of oats in a better way.
5. Deplete stored nutrients: As oats itself is not a big supplier of complete nutrition. In fact, besides energy and carbohydrates, oats are not a great supply of any other nutrient to begin with and when consumed in larger quantities they would increase the fat amount in the body that adversely affect the intake of other vitamins. Also, when not taken care of excess oats intake can also help remove the stored protein and vitamins and minerals and cause a deficiency of nutrients in the body.
6. Spike sugar levels: Being high in carbohydrates oats often tend to spike up our sugar levels pretty much instantly. High on other sugary compounds that are present in the processed oats tend to hurt our immune systema and also provide excess sugar that spikes up our blood sugar levels.
7. Allergy: This happens when oats that are highly processed contain preservatives and certain additives that can turn into allergens that may affect our body. And so, we need to be careful as to opt for oats that are organic, unsweetened, flavourful yet with no added preservatives would help avoid any kind of allergies.
Conclusion:
This blog states about the uncommon topic of why oats can be on a unhealthy side and what disadvantages can be seen when consumed in large quantities.
FAQs
Q. Does oats cause bloating?
A- There is very common complaint that surfaces with the people who regularly eat oats as their breakfast as well as snack meal in a day. Being high on carbs and no ither nutrient, oats tend to bulk their quantity to double with the presence of a little dietary fibre, that is indigestible and causes the body to feel gastric and bloated. This bloating can only be minimised by the addition of some soluble fibre and antioxidants in the body that would help in the digestion of oats in a better way.