# No wonder whole grains help you to lose weight. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 7, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-whole-grains-help-you-to-lose-weight/273494 "2004-11-07T14:12:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oregon\_sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/50afbb/32.png) [@Oregon\_sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oregon_sunshine)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-whole-grains-help-you-to-lose-weight/273494/1 "2004-11-07T14:12:16Z")
I just cooked and ate a bowl of whole wheat for breakfast. (Well, actually, I’m still eating it.) I found the stuff in a bulk food store, and since I heard you can eat it as a hot cereal, I decided I’d try it. I’m talking entire wheat berries - not just whole wheat cereal - the grains as they come from a stalk of wheat. This kind of food is _so_ different from regular cereal, I just had to share. I now know why it helps you to lose weight. 1. This stuff takes forever to eat!!! It’s good tasting - I love whole wheat products - but requires _minutes_ of chewing per mouthful. Very effort-intensive. 2. It’s very filling. Even though I am (still!!) eating only about 3/4 cup of the stuff, it feels as though I have eaten about 10 lbs. I don’t think I’ll eat for the rest of the day. If you try it - seriously, it’s no wonder this type of stuff is recommended for weight loss, plus it’s a really intense experience - please be cautioned that it takes about 1/2 hour to cook it. It’s cooked pretty much like brown rice. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-whole-grains-help-you-to-lose-weight/273494/2 "2004-11-07T14:31:55Z")
The human bodies they pull out of bogs in Denmark? That were human sacrifices? They have the same stuff in their stomachs. Maybe it made a good request for a last meal–biding time. Took forever to eat. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-whole-grains-help-you-to-lose-weight/273494/3 "2004-11-07T14:36:44Z")
You might want to go easy on that stuff at first; too much of that sort of stuff gives me awful gas. I’d have to work up to eating more than a few bites at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-whole-grains-help-you-to-lose-weight/273494/4 "2004-11-07T19:49:14Z")
Man, if you think it takes a long time to _eat_, you just wait. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-wonder-whole-grains-help-you-to-lose-weight/273494/5 "2004-11-07T20:55:56Z")
If it’s taking you that much effort to eat it, you haven’t cooked it enough. You can also cook it as a non-breakfast dish–see my first post in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=235591&highlight=farro) for directions on making braised farro.