Bye-Bye Belly Tip #23 Yay, Whole Grains!
Researchers at Penn State found that overweight adults who cut calories and increased whole grains lost more of their tummy pooch than those that cut calories, but stuck to refined grains.
What are whole grains, you ask?
Technically, whole grains are just that, the whole grain (bran, germ & endosperm)...Feel like you're in high school biology yet? A quick & dirty definition would be grains that haven't been broken up and separated through processing. Check out this whole website & blog from the Whole Grain Council- there you will find more than you ever thought you needed to know about whole grains. The easiest thing to do? Look for the label!
Some examples of whole grains copied from the WGC website:
- Amaranth
- Barley
- Buckwheat
- Corn, including whole cornmeal and popcorn
- Millet
- Oats, including oatmeal
- Quinoa
- Rice, both brown rice and colored rice
- Rye
- Sorghum (also called milo)
- Teff
- Triticale
- Wheat, including varieties such as spelt, emmer, farro, einkorn, Kamut®, durum and forms such as bulgur, cracked wheat and wheatberries
- Wild rice
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