The trendy 'healthy' alternative to cow's milk that may be RAISING your heart attack risk
Daily MailTo call it a fall from grace would be an understatement. Oat milk is almost all carbohydrate, says one nutrition specialist He claimed he’d just been diagnosed with high cholesterol, and that his doctor told him his daily matcha oat milk lattes were to blame. This may be because so-called ‘barista editions’ of oat milk – used in many drinks bought from coffee shops – are only about 10 per cent oat. ‘But drinking the frothy kind of oat milk that has a higher fat content could cause high cholesterol if you’re drinking it in excess.’ On top of this, diets that are high in sugar cause the liver to create more of the ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol and can lower levels of the ‘good’ HDL cholesterol. ‘After cutting it out and instead eating a bowl of porridge every day, my cholesterol went down – and that was the only change I made.’.and other options aren’t great either It's not just oat milk in the spotlight – coconut milk, which is often used in frothy hot milk drinks, is high in saturated fat and can cause cholesterol levels to spike, experts warn.
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