Can you imagine your diet without good, freshly baked, the whole grain bread? I cannot. Several of my friends tried, as usual, to loose weight with help of heavily advertized diets. They lost weight in a short time, but gained more even faster. Now they decided to avoid eating bread. I don’t think it is a smart decision. The whole grain, artisan or freshly baked bread is our friend, but not our enemy. Unfortunately many people don’t make any difference. You can see in specialty or delicatessen stores how many customers buy freshly baked, white-flour, popular French baguettes. Don’t they realize that French baguettes are made from white flour which doesn’t give us any good nutrition?

Wheat, rye, rice, barley and steel cut oatmeal are the main ingredients of the modern diet. Used as whole grain, these natural cereals represent very nutritious food coming directly from Mother Nature. Today our problem is that huge baking plants use modern miling techniques and produce refined, white-flour, different pastas, and other cereal-based foods which have very low nutrient level. Some white flours are bleached. This procedure doesn’t make any sense and it’s dangerous, too.

Refined grains have the sugars which are released quickly into the blood stream. The result of this absorbtion is such health disorders as diabetes and weight-gain. Eat whole grain brown bread, wholemeal pasta and wild brown rice. If you bake, use organic whole wheat, rye or buckwheat flour and make these products an important part of your clean, pure-foods diet.

References: photo of bread from www.clipart.com; photo of grains by Petr Kratovchil