Take Bread Out of Your Diet.

Here's an easy decision. When faced with all these delicious breads, which one's should you buy? The answer is none of them, unless your purpose is to put on weight.

Whole Grain bread and multi grain bread sounds healthy, but it all converts to monosaccharides in a very short time and the promised "vitamins and minerals" that are supposed to be in whole grains, are in fact very few, when compared with other foods.

Modern bread has lots of calories, and almost no nutritional value. The processing of the grains removes virtually all of vitamins and minerals, the grain once contained. Manufacturers add vitamins and minerals back into the product is they want to claim some nutritional value.

Stomach upsets

It's very common for people to have stomach upsets and reflux because of their consumption of bread.

Easy way to reduce weight

Since bread is such a major part of most people's diet, if you have a weight problem, cutting the bread out of your diet is really effective.

Bread at breakfast time, usually in the form of toast, turns insulin on and starts the process by which the body can continue to build adipose tissue (fat). Don't do that. Stage one: stop having toast at breakfast time.

Bread Free?

It does seem a bit strange going bread free at first. We so often use bread as a carrier for other foods. In sandwiches for instance, bread is a carrier for salad, or meat, or peanut butter.

Poached egg, not on toast, is messy on the plate, but it tastes just fine.

The Take-Out Diet

All carbohydrates are broken down into disaccharide and then to monosaccharides in the small intestine. Bread is no exception. Avoid it.

Digestion happens in three stages: (1) Forming disaccharide's like sucrose, maltose and lactose.
(2) Forming monosaccharides like glucose, fructose and glactose.
(3) Absorption of the sugars through the epithelial wall.

Some carbohydrates are not easily digested and find their way into the large intestine where they try to ferment causing flatulence. Bread often causes this problem.

The simple carbohydrate v complex carbohydrate (whole grains) distinction has little value.

There is no need to have any carbohydrate in your diet. Minimise complex carbohydrates, they are of little health value and are always non-essential. Never buy bread, or do so only occasionally.

Zoë Harcombe

The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) asserts that people need to eat more bread to get the vital vitamins and minerals they need. That is not the case.

The most nutritious foods are liver, sardines and eggs. In comparison flour has virtually no nutritional value.

The value of a bread lies almost entirely in the butter you spread on each slice.

If you stop eating bread the bloating, the craving for more bread, and often joint and muscle pain disappear.

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