Dr. Michael Greger

You cannot be wasting your calories on these empty calorie foods.

And so, and where is, and most-

grain consumption in the country is sadly these refined grains.

So going after grains, it makes total sense because that's what people are eating.

But of course a kind of whole grains got caught in the kind of friendly fire, right?

So what are the grains we should be eating?

So yeah, whole grains, ideally whole intact grains.

So like oat groats or steel cut oats, the more closely to how they kind of grew out of the ground, the better.

Or, you know, whole grain rye, you know, so we want whole as the first word in any kind of grain product.

Steel cut oats or whole oats.

Steel cut oats, fantastic.

Or even oak groats, which are what steel cut oats are.

Oak groats?

Yeah, oak groats is before you cut it, an oak groat cut two or three times turns into steel cut oats.

But that's the original.

And if you haven't tried it, they are delicious.

Oak groats?

Super chewy.

Oat groats, you buy, that's what, oh my God.

Someone turned me on to oat groats and I was like, I'm never going back.