We Have Known Bread Has Been Bad for Your Health for Over a Century

Posted By Dr. Mercola | June 16 2011 | 101 views

In 1911, the bread which made up 40 percent of the diet of the poor in Britain was widely blamed for widespread poor health.  Modern nutritional science confirms the accuracy of this assessment.

Refined white flour contains almost no natural minerals and vitamins.  In particular, vitamin B deficiency from poor diet resulted in a range of illnesses that the Victorians called 'wasting diseases'.  And white flour at the time was usually contaminated with the toxic chemical alum, which made bad flour look whiter.

According to the Daily Mail:

"[In modern times], the Real Bread Campaign, a non-profit pressure group, claims that bread has actually got worse since 1911 in terms of secret adulterants -- enzymes that do not have to be declared on labels -- still being smuggled into it.  Today, despite the modern fashion for healthy eating, 'nutritionally empty' white bread accounts for more than 50 percent of what we buy."

Sources:

  The Daily Mail June 15, 2011