Bread
Welcome to this week’s I Call Bullshit column. It’s a regular column that looks at skulduggery and balderdash, spurious reasoning and bunkum. This week we’re look at the humble loaf of white bread and its apparent demise.
White bread. It’s now seen not only as the dieter’s worst enemy, but as an insult to our heightened sense of the gourmet. It’s… vulgar.
Health experts decry its sodium content, its high GI, its nutritional vacuum. “The whiter the bread, the quicker you’re dead”, they say. Yes, they really do.
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Recently I was out for dinner with friends and the bread basket duly arrived. It was a cracker: lovely thick slices of sourdough – some studded with olives, others with caramelised garlic. Next to it was a generous slab of butter and a bowl of gorgeous, grassy olive oil.
But here’s the thing – no one touched it. Even the men. Like me, my companions were all famished, but that innocuous wicker basket may as well have been a nuclear reactor, such was the contempt and suspicion that greeted it.
When did bread get such a bad rap?
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notSue says:
Coeliac disease (a malabsorption syndrome affecting the gut lining, cause by an allergy to gluten) and gluten intolerance (bloating and pain caused by gluten) are quite prevalent in society these days, it’s true. However, the cause of the rising statistics has, as far as I’m aware, not been pinpointed. From… Read more »
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Kirk says:
What utter rubbish. The “human body was not built to digest grains”?? Three things: (a) Every heard of fibre? The indigestible parts of plants are vital to human health - cleaning out the gut, preventing bowel cancer and “have been shown to benefit diabetes, blood cholesterol levels and weight control”.… Read more »
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