American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 61, 325-333, Copyright © 1995 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Chronic oat bran intake alters postprandial lipemia and lipoproteins in healthy adults

C Dubois, M Armand, M Senft, H Portugal, AM Pauli, PM Bernard, H Lafont and D Lairon
Unite 130-INSERM (National Institute of Health and Medical Research), Marseille, France.

This study evaluates the possible interaction between chronic oat bran intake and the postmeal metabolic response. Six normolipidemic men consumed three different diets for 14 d, at the end of which they consumed a test meal. The diets were C (control), basal low-fiber diet (15.6 g fiber/d) and a low-fiber (2.8 g fiber) test meal; OB (oat bran), basal low-fiber diet and a 40-g oat bran-enriched test meal (12.8 g fiber); and OB-A (oat bran-adaptation), 14-d oat bran (40 g/d) supplemented diet (23.8 g fiber/d) and an oat bran test meal (12.8 g fiber). The diets were fed in a random order. Fasting and postmeal blood samples were obtained for 7 h and lipoproteins were isolated. Adding oat bran to the test meals markedly reduced the postmeal insulin rise (P < 0.05). Compared with the low-fiber control diet, the effects elicited postprandially by adding oat bran to a single meal were enhanced after 14 d of oat bran feeding, ie, increased plasma triglycerides, phospholipids, and free cholesterol; decreased plasma esterified cholesterol; increased chylomicron and small-sized triglyceride-rich lipoprotein triglycerides; increased LDL and HDL free cholesterol; and decreased HDL esterified cholesterol. Thus, chronic oat bran feeding alters the postmeal response in human subjects.

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