Bleached Wheat Flour

Ok, so we all know that eating refined grains is not the best health choice. Here is an article outlining the process that wheat goes through to get to the point of making nice fluffy white bread.

Little Known Secrets About Bleached Flour – Link no longer valid.

So, we’re going through a process that strips out any nutrients that were there in the grain to begin with. Leave only the simple carbohydrates, and generate a toxin that is used to induce diabetes. Think of eating white bread as being comparable to eating a large lump of sugar, and potentially a large lump of sugar laced with toxins. Note that the article does state there is a lot we don’t know about the actual effects of these changes to our food. We’re back to eating whole, natural foods as being the best way to ensure optimal health. Overall human alterations to food over the years have not gone well.