Dear Reader,
There are few foods more comforting and enjoyable than bread…
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Whether it is a warm piece of focaccia dipped in olive oil… a sandwich on a chewy baguette… a flaky croissant… or even the simplest slice of toast with butter…
Just thinking about these foods makes your mouth water!
And the blissful “intoxication” you experience when you eat bread is real.
In fact, you might say bread is the original food addiction.
Traditional bread produces compounds called gluteomorphins. And as their name implies, these compounds engage opined receptors in your brain – the same receptors triggered by drugs like morphine and heroin.
Very similar compounds, called casomorphins, are found in cheese
Bread is a Drug that Causes a Repetitive
Cycle of Cravings – for More Bread!
Our love affair with comforting (and addictive) bread is as old as recorded history…
The Bible practically commands followers to eat it: “Give us this day our daily bread…”
It was so revered in ancient Greece, the rest of the meal was called ópson – meaning “condiment” or bread’s accompaniment.
However, that fuzzy glow you feel when you bite into a slice of warm bread is short lived.
And, unfortunately…
Those Few Moments of Toasty-Buttered Bliss Carry a Heavy Price
Well-known cardiologist, Dr. William Davis, calls wheat “the perfect chronic poison.”
And for a poison, we sure eat lots of it. The average American consumes 55 pounds of wheat flour every year – making refined flour the number-one source of calories in the American Diet!
Functional nutrition expert, Chris Kresser, describes this as “a public health catastrophe.”
And it’s one you have likely experienced firsthand…
Eating traditional bread can elicit a range of symptoms. It might make you feel sluggish and foggy headed. Or cause you to gain unsightly fat on your belly, butt and thighs… while packing deadly visceral fat around your internal organs.
And part of the reason is because of the…
Little-Known Compound that Makes the
Glycemic Index of Wheat among the Highest of ALL Foods
You know how important it is to keep your blood sugar stable…
Rapid blood-sugar and insulin spikes promote a cascade of inflammation and oxidation.
Triggering these forces over and over again dramatically increases your risk for cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, fatty liver, diabetes, macular degeneration, physical aging (wrinkles) and more!
And did you know that wheat – including so-called “healthy” whole wheat – spikes your blood sugar more than almost any other food… even when the same number of carbs is consumed?
That’s because 75% of the carbohydrates in wheat are in the form amylopectin A.
This compound is unique because of how rapidly it is transformed to glucose.
According to research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, eating just two slices of whole wheat bread spikes your blood sugar more than drinking a can of soda, eating a candy bar or helping yourself to six teaspoons of table sugar!1