Bread is bad for you!

GEEGEE8

Well, wheat in fact..

I've been reading a very good book called 'You can be thin' by Marisa Peer.

Basically it says that bread, flour, wheat etc etc is just like glue and is so bad for you.

So, what is everyone's opinion on bread? I've cut it down/out now, as I keep thinking of wallpaper paste in my tummy lol.

I am overweight by a few stones and get lethargic a lot. This book has made me realise that the food I eat is to blame and I need to change this.. mainly with bread products.

glowgirl_2

I would agree with this, not sure if its actually bad for you but it certainly plays havoc with my weight and skin if I pig out on carbs, you might like to take a look at the Low Carb thread, lots of good recipies and support and info - best of luck:)

stormcloudgathering

I think lots of people are actually far more carb intolerant than they realise. And wheat hasn't been around long enough for our guts to have evolved properly to digest it properly.
Years ago when my granny was a middle aged lady she would announce that she was giving up "stodge" when her clothes became a little too tight. This included bread, cakes, pudding and potatoes. It always seemed to work for her!

belfastgirl23

Surely it depends a bit on the bread though? Basic supermarket white bread is pretty much free of any kind of nutritional content. But I have a breadmaker and make wholemeal bread using good flour, I don't think it's the same thing at all.

that said I'm doing a sort of a detox at the minute and have given up on bread and I managed to lose 3lb last week. That's even though I only have 2 slices of bread most days. Admittedly I've given up booze and sugar as well though

stormcloudgathering

Wholemeal stoneground bread is certainly a much lower GI food than basic supermarket white bread, and as such will have less of an adverse effect on your weight loss plan as it takes much longer to digest. It still has carbs though, and people need to know how many carbs they can have in a day if they're even slightly carb intolerant.
Alcohol and sugar both have carbs in them and I suspect that the combined effect of ditching them and bread is what's helping your weight loss.

londoner1998

GEEGEE8 wrote: »

Well, wheat in fact..

I've been reading a very good book called 'You can be thin' by Marisa Peer.

Basically it says that bread, flour, wheat etc etc is just like glue and is so bad for you.

So, what is everyone's opinion on bread? I've cut it down/out now, as I keep thinking of wallpaper paste in my tummy lol.

I am overweight by a few stones and get lethargic a lot. This book has made me realise that the food I eat is to blame and I need to change this.. mainly with bread products.

I would say too much bread is bad for you... too much of anythign is bad. I agree- industrial bread (sliced) is evil- I can have toast in the morning but if I overdo it throughout the day, I get terrible constipation. This doesn't happen with home made bread, good quality bread form the bakers, or flat middle eastern breads.
Is a highkly individual thing, but don't think 'allergies' are to blame, rather unbalanced diets that rely too much on ready-made bread and sandwiches ...the key is to eat a veried diet with plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. Bread is fine in the right proportion, I would say, there is no such a thing as a food or groups of food being 'bad'

she_grinch

If I have a sandwich made with wheat based breads I have my IBS flare up and can't get my trousers to meet at the button for about 48 hours. I only eat wheat free now. I eat a lot more oats than I used to, am vegetarian and have also cut out milk. I have very few attacks now

cattkitt

I don't think a couple of slices is bad for you.
My late husband, who was very overweight, used to go into the kitchen and eat half a loaf or a loaf at a time. Then he wondered why he was putting on weight, as we ate very much the same thing at mealtimes. (Apparently, he'd learnt from his mother that if you eat it in the kitchen, it doesn't count *rollseyes*)

GEEGEE8

Thanks for the replies everyone

I may have a bread product now and again, but I must admit the shock tactic that the book used has had it's effect on me. I was a carb addict and now I feel a little repulsed by it, which can only be a good thing really, considering most bready carb products are 'bad' foods.

I do have mild IBS, so I'm hoping this will help.

I have also read about milk. About how milk has puss and blood in it.. now I also watched a programme a while ago that said it wasn't quite as contaminated as some scaremongerers make out.. but it did point out that humans aren't meant to drink milk, well not cows milk, and it has a lot of hormones and other things in it to basically fatten the calf up (and us). A calf will grow to the size of it's mum in 6 months, whereas a human can take 16 years. & so by drinking milk and dairy products we are ingesting this super growth hormone, some puss and blood. It's put me off that too now! lol.

Also apparently cheese is highly addictive but I can't remember the actual ingredient that makes it so.

I know all of this is not new information, but after years of thinking I was up on nutrition (based on years of dieting), I now realise that my issue is possibly with wheat and dairy, and by voluntarily cutting these out I will probably make my body a lot happier and get less bloated and uncomfortable.

Please keep the opinions coming, it's interesting to hear.

Apollonia

stormcloudgathering wrote: »

And wheat hasn't been around long enough for our guts to have evolved properly to digest it properly.

My bold - you think so? Archaeologists have evidence of wheat cultivation in what's now Turkey going back to 9000 BC - and at least 3000 BC was when wheat reached England.

And that's just cultivated wheat - ie deliberately grown as a food crop. There is evidence of wild barley going back to 23,000 BC so there is every chance that man has been eating wheat in some form or another for just as long!

GEEGEE8

Apparently it was always grown as cattle feed though?