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Here’s why you should reduce your bread consumption

Bread intake on a regular basis is unhealthy for the body. Here are some justifications for cutting back on bread consumption.

In Nigeria, bread is one of the foods that is most frequently consumed. Breakfast meals, bread, and akara sandwiches, and many more dishes may all be prepared using bread.

However, scientific evidence has led us to conclude that regularly consuming bread may not be as healthful as previously thought.

1. Increases blood sugar level

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.

2. Difficult to digest

When a grain is refined, the outermost and innermost layers of the grain are removed. This removes the fiber and some protein, leaving behind the starch. This lack of starch causes the bread to turn into a sticky, gluey mass when mixed with the digestive juice in the stomach. This stays in the system for long and causes a toxic build-up in the body.

Bread also has lots of gluten which causes bloating, stool inconsistency, damage to the wall of the intestinal tract, and tiredness.

Here’s why you should reduce your bread consumption

3. Accelerates weight gain

Packaged and pre-sliced white bread contains only highly-processed, simple carbohydrates because all the refining removes all the healthy nutrients. It is also full of salt, refined sugar, and preservatives. If you eat too much bread, it can make you put on loads of weight.

4. Contains anti-nutrients

Lectins and Phytates are toxins that are found in all grains and legumes that bind to certain nutrients (like iron, zinc, calcium, and others) and can slow or inhibit your body’s ability to absorb those nutrients. Since bread is made of grains, it can be bad for your stomach, causing inflammation of the stomach lining, making it difficult to absorb nutrients in the foods we eat.

5. Might contain dangerous chemicals

Due to the different ways in which bread is made, there can be different flour treating agents to make the bread fluffy, soft and give it a good finish. Some of these agents can be dangerous to the body in the long run, such as potassium bromate, saccharine, and iodate.

Akosua Boatemaa

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