1. Introduction
weight loss, Overweight
These authors contributed equally to this work.The impact on body weight development is usually analysed by comparing different diet types. Our approach was to change only one component, namely bread, common to most diets. In a single-centre triple-blind randomised controlled trial the effects of two different breads on body weight were analyzed without further lifestyle modification. Overweight adult volunteers (Bread is the most widely consumed grain-based food in the world and is also one of the largest sources of carbohydrate in the Western diet. In Europe, it provides up to 30% of the daily carbohydrate consumption in women and up to 37% in men [However, review articles looking at undifferentiated bread consumption could not show a significant association between bread consumption and weight loss [So far, it is still unclear how exactly and to what extent bread consumption is related to regulation of body weight. In previous work [