Whole wheat vs. white bread - which is better for your diet?

The bread battle is a key feature of any self-respecting diet. To eat or not to eat bread? And if so, which color?

How big a difference is there really between eating white bread and eating whole-wheat bread?

Scientists in Professor Eran Segal’s laboratory at the Weizmann Institute tested multiple blood markers of ten people who ate white bread for one week and sourdough whole-wheat bread the next week, matching both breads on carbohydrate content. Another ten people followed the same regimen, but in the reverse order.

Surprisingly, although one week of bread consumption affected blood test results, no differences were found between the two types of bread.

One of the effects of bread – or any food – on our body is reflected in the glucose levels in our blood. The scientists found significant disparities among different people in their blood glucose response to bread. In other words, each person had a different glucose response to each type of bread. This personalized effect of bread could perhaps extend to other physiological processes

The researchers also measured levels of microbes – intestinal bacteria that live inside all of us. The researchers found that the composition of microbes was unique to each person throughout the experiment, and this makeup of microbes predicted the blood glucose response better than the type of bread.

This means that general dietary recommendations are not enough; the best menu for each of us is also determined by our individual characteristics.

The scientists found that such a short-term nutritional change does not have a major effect on the population of gut bacteria. If intestinal bacteria do not change the moment we change our diet, this enables us to use their composition to personalize our diet.

But what if future research discovers how to change the makeup of our microbiome? Could we then program it to let us eat chocolate without gaining an ounce?

[animeloverXinuyasha]

This literally tells me nothing about anything... study conducted for just one week on just 10 people and the conclusion is that we're all different, so no insight on the pros/cons of the different types of bread or which type is better for certain types of people.

[Storm_cryo]

10 people isn't enough people to make a good research,
And 1 week is not enough time-

[captinbeyond]

It's like choosing between white sugar and brown sugar.

[Operator--duek]

Most American wheat breads have the same nutritional profile as white bread

[JokinJoe]

100 percent whole wheat bread is the best. 60 calories a slice with four grams of protein and 2 grams of fiber. White bread is nutritional styrofoam.

[slime_creeper]

I like wheat bread more than white bread.

[kennethabarnhart]

So if we are all different and require different diets for optimum health, how does one get an understanding of what is the best diet for me? I cook for us, and my wife’s diabetes numbers and blood pressure readings have been best when we eat low carb meals, and fast in the evening and over night for 15-hours. She also has seizures every few years, and a ketogenic diet is said to be good at preventing seizures (I wonder why, but am clueless). I seem to have stumbled onto a winning food formula for her. I also seem to benefit from a low carb diet. We have lost some weight, but we both remain overweight but not obese.

I there a way to figure out what we both should eat in a systematic and less hit and miss manner?

We eat some animal and fish meat, I use butter in cooking, and we eat cheese occasionally. We limit the frequency and quantity of these animal products that we use, as we don’t want to consume hormones, antibiotics and other harmful substances that they often contain. I am trying to gradually shift to an organic plant based diet, but now wonder if this is right for our body types.

[ains-hosy]

who is watching this while eating bread?

[fightfannerd]

vary informative everybody is different

[alyssaandjayce]

Idl (I dont like) whole wheat but I do like split wheat bread

[gooberclown]

I wish you could translate the crap in this video and then tell me in plain English just what you are trying to say.

[alyssaandjayce]

Ok it's not just whole wheat there's also split Wheat bread