Scientists discover why bread can cause weight gain without extra calories

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260414075637.htm

by XzetaU8 • 3 months ago

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ggm• 3 months ago

Need to understand how resistant starch modified carbs play in this. So, rice chilled and re-heated. Reheated spuds. Not sure how you can do this with bread but maybe secondary cooking (toast) gets you there?

Also, is this another nail in the coffin for "all calories are the same" ? Feels like it.

I am not a mouse, but I definitely preference some carbs over others. Mind you, given a choice between snacking on an umami laden bowl of salami, cheese, miso, burnt-crunchy-bits-from-the-dinner-roast or carbs, I'd eat all of them.

NotGMan• 3 months ago

Some youtuber tested cooled rice or something to test regular vs resistant starch using a glucose monitor and found zero difference in his blood sugar response.

So while there might be gut bacteria effect changes of it some people at least show no different blood glucose response.

Since Ozempic came out it should be obvious even to the most hardcore "all calories are the same" people that this is blatently false and that the hormonal response to foods is what drives satiety, not "calories".

hackernudes• 3 months ago

I may be missing something, but isn't the focus on calories about weight gain, not feeling full?

PhoenixFlame101• 3 months ago

The "all calories are the same" statement doesn't mean that all foods with the same caloric values satiate you the same, and no one has ever claimed that. In fact it's very common knowledge; the entire basis of diets like keto that remove carbs, the least satiating of the marcos per calorie.

The only thing hormones can affect is your maintenance requirement, meaning you can gain weight if your body chooses to store the calories instead of burning them for whatever reason, even while eating the same as always.

hulitu• 3 months ago

why bread can cause weight gain
When wheat flour was removed from the diet, both body weight and metabolic abnormalities improved quickly.

Bread is not only wheat flour. And humans do not eat flour.

Maybe the added sugar in "bread" has a role ?

blame-troi• 3 months ago

This what I call peasant metabolism.

Scientists discover why bread can cause weight gain without extra calories

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