| Eating bread I had to repost this comment, because the other thread got off topic and deviated from dealing with diabetes. so here it is again.
So please people stay on topic
People with diabetes have been told to avoid bread.
well this is parftially right.
Modern bread is made with white flour.
white flour is a recent invention, it came around the 1950's , before then white bread was non-existent.
the process involved in creating white flour strips the original wheat from any vitamins, minerals and other nutritents.
so what was left of the wheat was just empty glutten, devoid of any nutritional value.
as people became aware of this problem the industry begun to fortify or enrich bread.
however this enrichment only put back some of the nutrients with artificial vitamins or minerals. the bread is still deficient in other nutrients which are not perceived as "necessary".
and Artificially created vitamins will never equal the natural vitamins and minerals that occur in whole wheat flour.
another point is that the nutrients put back are not in the right proportions found in nature. any good cook will tell you that the right portions of foods make a huge difference in how the meal turn out.
A chemist will also tell you that the right proportions of chemicals are essential in any chemical compound.
But what makes the matter even worse is that the bleaching process used to make flour white and pretty uses many chemicals to accomplish that, and one of the chemicals is alloxan . Alloxan is a chemical that is acutally used in medical labs to induce diabetes in hamsters and mice for research process.
traces of alloxan and other chemicals remain in the white flour.
as we can see bread made with white flour is hurtful to a diabetic.
then why do people still buy white bread.
for many reasons
Most people like the taste of white bread, for indeed it tastes better than whole wheat bread.
The bread industry is only giving people what they want, it is not their job to sell healthy bread, just edible bread.
What is the option then, are diabitc people never to touch bread?
fortunatly the answer is no.
Diabetic people need to go back to old fashioned bread, that is 100% whole wheat bread, with no sugar preferable.
I eat 100% whole wheat bread, multigrain bread, and sprouted bread.
My favorite bread is Ezekiel bread, this is a bread made from a recipe given by God to the prophet Ezekiel.
It has no sugar, it is delicious (just have to get used to it) nutritional and is actually good for a diabetic like me.
diabetics can eat bread, it jsut has to be the right type of bread.
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