If You're Dieting, Choose Rye Toast For Breakfast

If you're trying to avoid mid-morning snacks that sabotage your weight-loss plan, try exchanging your wheat toast for rye toast - or choose a rye-based cereal instead.

Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences have found that eating rye bread at breakfast suppressed appetite for the next 3 hours. The tests were done with a "normal" breakfast, but with the substitution of rye bread for wheat bread. Caloric intake with the rye breakfast corresponded to caloric intake with a similar wheat breakfast.

Wheat Bread

In the test, it didn't matter if the breads were made from rye bran or from sifted rye flour. Nor did the amount of rye seem to matter. Different breads gave between 5 and 8 grams of rye per breakfast, but all formulas gave the same result: A lasting decrease in hunger and the desire to eat.

In addition, the effects seemed to last into the afternoon. When subjects ate a "normal" lunch they didn't experience the normal mid-afternoon hunger pangs.

Researchers haven't yet determined the reason for this effect, but my guess is that they're trying to figure it out. Meanwhile, it could be seen as somewhat of a miracle for the millions of Americans who want to lose weight, but who don't want to take pharmaceutical drugs and are unable or unwilling to force themselves into a closely regimented diet.

If the simple exchange of rye bread for wheat bread with breakfast can prevent dieters from mid-morning and mid-afternoon snacking, the weight loss industry just might not want overweight people to find out.

This discovery could present a serious threat to the multi-billion dollar weight-loss industry.

On top of that, it could cause dieters to be healthier!

If You're Dieting, Choose Rye Toast For Breakfast

M. G. Cliff is a freelance copywriter with a strong interest in natural health. She enjoys writing for a variety of companies who promote health and well-being through safe, natural products and practices. Marte's natural health site, http://www.pharmfreehealth.com, presents natural alternatives to pharmaceuticals, health warnings, news about health-giving foods, and more.

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