The mankind knows of useful properties of oats for a long time. This culture is used not only as horse fodder, but also for food of the person as the cereal makes medical impact on all organism.
Useful properties of oats
Powerful health and useful giving qualities and also rich structure allow to apply widely oats in traditional medicine. Grains contain about 60% of starch, up to 8% of fat, 10-18% of proteins (on protein content oats rank second after buckwheat), amino acid (tryptophane and a lysine). Are in oats: essential oils, B1, B6, K, B2 vitamins, carotene, pantogenovy and nicotinic acids, gum. Among macro - and minerals which contain in this culture it should be noted the following: potassium, phosphorus, chrome, zinc, fluorine, magnesium, iron and many others. Grits are rich with sulfur.
This culture differs in an optimum ratio of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and vitamins. Oats are quite often included in a diet for restoration of a rhythm of warm activity, it is explained by the content of vitamins of group B which play a large role in work of nervous system. Starch which is present at a large number provides an organism with slow energy, it allows to avoid sharp increase in sugar in blood (that is especially useful at diabetes). Organic acids are found in oats: erucic, oxalic and molonovy.
The protein which is a part of a cereal is necessary for a human body for restoration and growth of fabrics. And soluble cellulose protects a cardiovascular system, reduces the level of harmful cholesterol in blood (at the regular use). Minerals and vitamins actively participate in exchange processes, reduce risk of developing of various diseases. Oats are very important for blood, nails, bones, hair, cartilages and a metabolism of nervous tissue. The silicon which is contained in a cereal helps to interfere with a hair loss. Oats improve work of a pancreas and liver, promote assimilation in fat intestines. Enzyme which works like pancreas enzyme (amylase) which helps to acquire carbohydrates is found in grains. And tireostatina favorably influence activity of a thyroid gland. Mucous broths of oats use at an anemia, insufficient absorbability of a stomach, digestive tract diseases.
Contraindications and harm
Actually, oats can bring to an organism not only essential benefit, but also harm. Harmful effects of a cereal are obvious to people who suffer from a tseliakiya (intolerance of cereals). The phytin acid which is present at oats at accumulation in an organism can lead to washing away from a bone tissue of calcium. Before use of oats in food it is necessary to consider that this grain is contraindicated at a heart and renal failure, at individual intolerance of a product.