When I was young, my mother used to have a saying. "The whiter the bread, the quicker you're dead." At the time, I thought she was just trying to scare the heck out of me. You know how mothers can be. But as I grew up, I began to realize that there was a lot of truth in what she said. Hopefully, this article will alert you to some of the dangers of white bread and why it should be avoided at all costs.
The thing that makes white bread different from other breads is that it's made from white bleached flour. This may not seem like such a big deal, but bleached white flour isn't just white flour. The flour itself is actually bleached with chemicals. The most common chemical used is potassium bromate. These chemicals are very harmful to our bodies.
This horrible trend actually started in the 1950s in order to reduce costs and to also make the bread look more appealing to eat. Because the bleaching process destroyed all the vitamins and minerals of the flour, in order to put some kind of nutrition back into the bread, it was enriched artificially by putting back these vitamins and minerals that were destroyed in the bleaching process.
But what exactly does this bread do to your body? Certainly it doesn't seem that just because bread is bleached and loses its nutrition, which bread makers do put back in, that the dangers can be all that bad. That's the most dangerous part about eating white bread. It appears to be so harmless. Certainly it tastes okay. But that's where the "good" ends.
It has been determined that because of the way white bread is made that it absorbs a lot of water. Why does this matter? It matters because our bodies are made up mostly of water. So a diet that is high in white bread consumption is going to absorb a lot of water from our bodies. This can lead to problems like constipation and other digestive disorders.
If all this isn't enough to show you that eating white bread is just not good for you, studies have been made on human behavior pertaining to people who live on diets high in white bread consumption.
For example, did you know that over about 98 percent of all people convicted of serious crimes are white bread eaters?
Our children are probably taking the worst hit of all. It has been determined that more than half of the kids who grow up in homes that consume white bread have below average test scores.
The worst part of all these statistics is that it has been proven that white bread is addictive.
On the other side of the coin, primitive cultures who don't eat white bread have fewer instances of diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
So what's the answer? Simple. Get away from a diet of white bread and eat natural whole wheat breads from a health store. Most commercial whole wheat breads, unfortunately are no better than white.
As my mother used to say, "The whiter the bread, the quicker you're dead."
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