Bread – avoid it!

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“wait, why no bread?”. You probably know the Food Pyramid told us the majority of our calories should come from breads, pastas, cereals, rice, and other grains. But 5 simple reasons why we should avoid:

1. Your’e not getting anything out of it.

We’ve been told over the past few years that “whole grain” food is good for us. Marketing gimmick. Money making tactic. Manipulation at its finest. From a nutrition standpoint, even whole wheat or whole grain bread is mostly devoid of any kind of essential real nutrients. Replace bread with vegetables and fruits and you’ll get all of the things bread promises to deliver, and at a higher concentration & without all of the negative side effects addressed here! Breads are often “fortified” or “enriched” with vitamins and minerals. This means things like vitamin E, calcium, iron and fiber are added back into the bread after the ingredients have been so highly processed that they are stripped of their nutrients. But these so called vitamins, minerals, and nutrients that are added back in are likely not even absorbed and utilized by our bodies! This leads us to our second point…

2. Lectins and phytates: The anti-nutrients!

Lectins are toxins found in all grains and legumes. Like a mushroom that is poisonous, think of lectins as the grain’s natural defense to keep predators away, or makes them sick upon eating too much of it. Bread is full of awful lectins. They cause havoc on our gut, causing the stomach lining to become inflamed, making it difficult to absorb nutrients in the foods we eat. Phytates are another toxin found in grain that actually bind to certain nutrients (like iron, zinc, calcium and others) and can slow or inhibit your body’s ability to absorb those nutrients. So, all of those nutrients your bread is “fortified” and “enriched” with? You’re probably wont absorb them anyway.

3. It is typically packed with junk.

The majority of breads at the grocery store have high fructose corn syrup in them. Dead serious. Yes, we’re talking bread here—not soda, candy bars, or salad dressings. White bread, generic and Wonder, whole wheat, whole grain, ten grain, nut and seed—all of them have high fructose corn syrup. Read the ingredients on a few bread labels and you will be amazed not only at the sheer number of ingredients, but that HFCS is in SO MANY of them! In addition to high fructose corn syrup, many also contain hydrogenated and partially hydrogenated oils—yes, TRANS FATS —in your bread! Keep it simple: Avoid!

4. It highly impacts your blood sugar.

When you eat processed carbs, your blood sugar spikes, insulin surges, blood sugar crashes and you feel like sleeping, so you eat more carbs to bring yourself back up to consciousness. Eating a slice of bread is gonna start is cycle for you.

5. Eating Bread can causes Inflammation.

Just because someone is thin doesn’t mean they’re healthy. And just because someone isn’t overweight doesn’t mean their gut, their brain tissue, and blood vessels aren’t inflamed from the constant onslaught of processed carbs. We know that inflammation is the root cause of most health issues, so why would you want to put something into your body (several times a day even) that can make you sick? Especially when you can replace that something with vegetables and fruits, and not only avoid getting sick, but also be healthier because of it?