Regular consumption of bread is harmful to the body. In Nigeria, bread is one of the most consumed foods in the entire country. However, scientific reasons have made us see that eating bread on a regular basis may not be as healthy as you think.
Bread is not healthy in your diet for a few reasons. These are the reasons why you should reduce your bread intake.
1. Contains dangerous chemicals
One reason you should cut down on your bread intake is because of the different ways bread is made. Agents, such as potassium bromate, saccharin, and iodate, used to make bread fluffy and soft, as well as to give it a nice finish, can be dangerous to the body in the long run.
2. Increases blood sugar level
Eating processed carbs will cause your blood sugar to spike, your blood sugar to crash, insulin to spike, and you’ll feel like sleeping, so you eat more carbs to regain consciousness.
3. Contains antinutrients
Grains and legumes contain lectins and phytates, which are toxins that bind to certain nutrients (such as iron, zinc, calcium, and others) and can slow or inhibit your body’s ability to absorb those nutrients. Since bread is made from grains, it can be bad for your stomach, causing inflammation of the stomach lining and making it harder for you to absorb nutrients from the food you eat.
4. Difficult to digest
When you refine a grain, the outermost and innermost layers of the grain are removed. The lack of starch causes the bread to turn into a sticky, sticky dough when it mixes with the digestive juices in the stomach. This stays in the system for a long time and causes a toxic buildup in the body that makes bread difficult to digest.
Bread is also high in gluten, which causes bloating, damage to the lining of the intestinal tract, and fatigue.
5. Accelerate weight gain
Packaged and sliced white bread contains only highly processed simple carbohydrates because all the refining removes all the healthy nutrients. It’s also full of salt, refined sugar, and preservatives. If you eat too much bread, you can get very fat.
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