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Can someone explain why Oats are so revered on this forum (vs other forms of carbs). I would genuinely like to know.
And does anybody disagree that butter is better than a vegetable oil based spread.
PS: I was reading a thread for a few hours, which uses only scientific sources for information - ie. no bro-science, which is used in this forum (and most others). I'll dig it out so some of you can have a read. It makes for interesting reading.
1) convenient, carb rich, tasty, low GI, cheap. To expand, for me personally i like to keep insulin in check whilst still getting convenient carbs in my day especially in the run up to gym or cardio work. (unless cutting)
2)oil is oil to some degree, you shouldnt heat olive oils as i understand as you create transfats. But if your cutting you should be on 0 cal spray anyway and if not, use whatever. Butter in my personal opinion does not function as a lubricant in a pan as well as something like sunflower oil, and can also impart more flavour which may be a negative.
3/PS) Science based threads are all well and good if you understand the appropriate methodology and if you can correctly identify poorly designed studies and find flaws in false or flawed results. If you cannot then science based threads can be more dangerous than 'bro-science' threads. As they encourage you to give elevated status to potential nonsense over good knowledge on the basis that some 'scientist' somewhere did a study on it.
The reverence a typical beginner or non scientific minded trainer gives to published scientific study is misguided. Somewhere out there will be published studies explaining that the world is flat, black is white and that if i pray really REALLY hard to the right god, paedophiles will spontaneously combust. But no matter how much science those studies contain they are still wrong.