Researchers say white bread makes a person rounder

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Researchers say white bread makes a person rounder
By Ira Dreyfuss, Associated Press Writer | June 19, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Many Americans are like a loaf of bread -- soft, with one side round. Their choice of bread may be part of the reason.

Some researchers say white bread and other refined grains seem to go to the gut and hang out as belly fat.

"Waist circumference was very much associated with this high-refined grains pattern," said Katherine Tucker, an associate professor of nutritional epidemiology at Tufts University in Boston. She and other scientists are studying what happens to the bodies of people who eat lots of refined bread.

The researchers have tracked the eating habits of a group of healthy, largely middle-age people in Baltimore. The focus is on 459 people with a variety of eating habits. Some prefer refined grains; others favor whole grains, fruits and vegetables.