Straight Talk About Bread
If you've been following the news the past few months, a fast food chain admitted that their breads contained ingredients like plastics and other additives that only added to the appearance. They said they would stop using all artificial ingredients by the end of this year. Now a restaurant chain this week has admitted to the same thing and said they would stop using artificial ingredients next year.
So, how wide spread is this practice? We all know that we can buy a loaf of white bread in the grocery store and it will last for months. But when you buy a loaf of bread at a bakery, where they use no additives, the bread goes stale over night. So what are manufactures adding? What are these additives doing to our health. I wrote a post a couple of days ago about bread and in that post I talked about whole grain breads. I only eat rye bread. The only way you can make rye bread is with whole grains. If I buy a good brand I know I'm getting whole grain. Be careful of packaging and labels, they can deceive you. Remember whole wheat is not whole grain. Multi-grain is not whole grain. Seven-grain is not whole grain. Last week I posted an article about bread, if you haven't read it look in the archives in the right column. There's some interesting facts in there.
Bread can be one of the reasons you can't lose body fat. It's true that some foods go straight to you waist line. Few breads and other pastries have little nutritional value and will turn to body fat almost quicker than any other food. A whole grain bread has natural fiber plus the nutrition in the grain. Eating whole grain is like eating a time capsule pill. The nutrition breaks down over time because of the hard shell the grain has. That's a good thing, but you still have to be careful how much you eat. It might be good for you but it still has calories.
Stay under 2000 calories a day if you want to lose weight and under 1600 calories for women. Don't forget to count the calories in your drinks.
So, how wide spread is this practice? We all know that we can buy a loaf of white bread in the grocery store and it will last for months. But when you buy a loaf of bread at a bakery, where they use no additives, the bread goes stale over night. So what are manufactures adding? What are these additives doing to our health. I wrote a post a couple of days ago about bread and in that post I talked about whole grain breads. I only eat rye bread. The only way you can make rye bread is with whole grains. If I buy a good brand I know I'm getting whole grain. Be careful of packaging and labels, they can deceive you. Remember whole wheat is not whole grain. Multi-grain is not whole grain. Seven-grain is not whole grain. Last week I posted an article about bread, if you haven't read it look in the archives in the right column. There's some interesting facts in there.
Bread can be one of the reasons you can't lose body fat. It's true that some foods go straight to you waist line. Few breads and other pastries have little nutritional value and will turn to body fat almost quicker than any other food. A whole grain bread has natural fiber plus the nutrition in the grain. Eating whole grain is like eating a time capsule pill. The nutrition breaks down over time because of the hard shell the grain has. That's a good thing, but you still have to be careful how much you eat. It might be good for you but it still has calories.
Stay under 2000 calories a day if you want to lose weight and under 1600 calories for women. Don't forget to count the calories in your drinks.
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