Rethink breakfast for maximum health and longevity, considering slow-cooked oat groats.
Because Dr. Esselstyne, MD, Director of the Cleveland Heart Clinic has researched how fabulous oatmeal is for your body, we have taken it "up" big time. HeartlandMill.com (in western Kansas) is a good US source of clean, 100% organic oat groats ($63 for a 50-pound sack; see if your local health food store can bulk order it for you, otherwise the expense of shipping it directly to your door could double the price).
Oat groats provide massive amounts of fiber, which is super helpful to keep veins and arteries cleaned out and sustain good colon health [good intestinal health is key to having good overall health], filled with phytonutrients and polyphenols (another micro nutrient category, totally missing from meat and dairy, which your body needs and thrives on).
Here is a simple, easy method for getting the most benefit from your oats.
(1) Rinse a cup of the whole oat groats the night before, rinsing them three times and using the back of a large spoon to smoosh the oats against the sides of your server bowl or the wire strainer, to get rid of any mold or dust from the silo towers all grains are stored in before shipping.
(2) Place the rinsed groats in a slow cooker (crock pot) and add three cups of clean, purified drinking water. Use an electrical outlet timer to turn them on (on low) four hours before you will be wanting to eat them (we usually do this overnight). They will roughly double in size by morning.
(3) Season with a half teaspoon of ground clove powder (that ranks on the top of the chart for antioxidants) and a whole teaspoon of ground cinnamon powder. There is no need to add anything to it (no white processed sugar, for sure!), but you may want to add some almond milk and sprinkle it with stevia or coconut sugar. It gives great energy for the morning.
Sometimes we add a smoothie to our breakfast diet—either an hour before or a couple of hours afterwards—including chia seeds and berries (which rank at the top of the fruit category for daily consumption).
These are two very healthy breakfast ideas. You may want to delay one or the other for use as a mid-morning snack—a good strategy for sustaining health.
