Discover Why Bread and Carbs Can Cause Weight Gain Even Without Extra Calories
A new study from Osaka Metropolitan University has challenged conventional thinking about carbohydrates, revealing that staple foods like bread, rice, and wheat may promote weight gain and increased body fat not by encouraging overeating, but by significantly slowing down the body’s energy expenditure.
In carefully controlled experiments, researchers observed that mice strongly preferred carbohydrate-rich foods over their standard chow, eventually abandoning the regular diet altogether.
Even when total calorie intake did not increase substantially, the mice consuming bread, wheat flour, or rice flour experienced notable gains in body weight and fat mass. The effect was consistent across both normal and high-fat diet groups, suggesting the weight gain was driven by metabolic shifts r...