It's not exactly news, but it's still good advice: In what is said to be the world's largest diet study, involving 772 families, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have concluded that the best way to lose weight or avoid gaining weight is to cut down on finely refined starch calories such as white bread and white rice and instead eat a diet that is high in proteins with more lean meat, low-fat dairy products and beans. Read a news release about the study from the University of Copenhagen. Read an excerpt from the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Saturday, May 31, 2025
thanks for the great tips– will start today with better eating habits!
Since mid-August, I have lost about 15 pounds by doing the very same plus cutting out potatoes as well. Not that it was easy; I spend much of my time in Istanbul TR and Sofia BG, where heavily salted (and temptingly tasty) white bread and white flour “fast-food” (borek/banitsa) are ubiquitous.
Your kidding right? You mean there are people who are still eating white bread? Come on! You mean they didn’t get the memo? You know, the one stating that if they didn’t spray (enriched) some useless vitamins on this stuff, they couldn’t sell it as food. That if you were to take those useless vitamins out, there would be NO nutritional value, lost in the bleaching process. Same with the rice, sugar, flour, and anything else they feel couldn’t be sold unless they processed all the good out, and leave just a pretty white useless substance. Good grief!
Switching to whole wheat bread from white bread is a good idea. Whole wheat breads are not fattening, and it prevents you from losing those unwanted fats.