In the modern world, more and more people who adhere to a healthy diet, refuse to eat baked goods and bread itself. Why is this happening? For quite recently, our grandmothers could not imagine that any meal is possible without a good slice of bread. And we have grown up since childhood on sayings like: "Bread is all over the head", and "There will be bread - there will be lunch."
The fact is that at the time of our grandmothers' youth, bread was prepared mainly from whole grain, unrefined flour. Such a whole-grain bakery, indeed, was a storehouse of vitamins and nutrients. But to the bread that we get today on supermarket shelves, it has nothing to do. Here are a few facts about the uselessness, and sometimes the harm, of modern bread.
Bread completely useless?
Wheat grains are rich in vitamins A, F, E. There are many useful minerals in it, for example: selenium, copper, iodine, zinc, magnesium, manganese and many others. But all this vitamin storage is mainly in the shell of grain, which is already eliminated during the production of flour. And the remaining trace elements( about 30%) lose their activity within 2 weeks. As a result, the bread that comes to our table does not bring us any benefit.
Bread is very harmful?
Modern bread production at any stage does not do without chemicals. Growing wheat, it is abundantly fertilized with herbicides, pesticides and mineral fertilizers. The ears are dried with special chemicals, and for a white shade of flour it is bleached with chlorine dioxide and benzoyl peroxide. The remnants of this monstrous mixture subsequently come to us on the table.
Bread is the cause of the development of gastrointestinal diseases?
Modern baked goods are literally stuffed with gluten. After all, breeders throughout the last century very actively worked on breeding varieties of cereals, especially those rich in this protein. Gluten helps the bread long to remain beautiful, elastic and soft.
But for human health there is a lot of harm from this substance. Approximately 1% of people worldwide suffer from gluten intolerance( celiac disease).And doctors are sure that this figure is understated many times, since many simply do not pay attention to the mild forms of the disease. As a result, a person experiences a lot of problems with the gastrointestinal tract: flatulence, bloating, muscle cramps and others, not even suspecting that it was bread that caused everything.
Bread is the cause of weight gain?
Dieticians all over the world in one voice say: you want to lose weight - forget about bread forever! One hundred grams of modern, delicious fresh bread contains only 1 gram of healthy fiber, everything else will go straight to your fat layers.
As you could already understand, there is almost no reason to continue eating bread. From him much more harm than good. If you can not give up bread at all, try to choose varieties from whole-grain flour and use it whenever possible in the morning, so that the body can digest the resulting fiber.