New reason to avoid refined grains

I eat no (zero) refined grains. I still eat plenty of carbs: oatmeal,
crispbreads, fruits and veggies. How about you? Read below.

"The researchers have tracked the eating habits of a group of healthy,
largely middle-age people in Baltimore. The focus is on 459 people
with a variety of eating habits. Some prefer refined grains; others
favor whole grains, fruits and vegetables.
Refining removes the fibrous bran and oil-rich germ, leaving the
sweeter endosperm, the whitish-colored meat of the kernel.
The Tufts researchers say calories from refined grains like to settle
at the waist.
The belt size of the white bread group expanded about one-half inch a
year, which probably put some of the research subjects into a larger
size of pants over the three years they were tracked, Tucker said. At
the end, the white bread group had three times the fiber group's gain
at the gut. " http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...it_white_bread

"Ignoramus1628" wrote in message
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Brad, stories such as this one should not make us change our eating
habits.

Let's see what the story reported: that eaters of whole grain bread
do not have expanding waistlines, whereas eaters of white bread do.

What does it really prove? Nothing.

People who eat "whole grain" bread and do not eat white bread are
definitely those who are very concerned with diet and nutrition. Whole
grain bread is much more expensive and, to most people, not as tasty.
So, to buy it, one needs to have compelling motivation, like wanting
to be on a diet (duh).

We all have different tastes. I've always bought whole grain bread because
it tastes much better than the white bread. I started buying it long before
I ever had a weight problem.

Beverly