| Open up your bread box and read the ingredients of | | | | dietary minerals (including magnesium, manganese, |
| your favorite bread. Chances are the first ingredient | | | | phosphorus, and selenium), and vitamins (including |
| is going to be enriched wheat flour. | | | | niacin, vitamin B6, and vitamin E). |
| What does "enriched" mean? | | | | Health benefits |
| Enriched flour is flour in which most of the natural | | | | By eating whole grains you reduce the risk of some |
| vitamins and minerals have been extracted. This is | | | | forms of cancer, digestive system diseases, coronary |
| done in order to give bread a finer texture, increase | | | | heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. |
| shelf life and prevent bugs from eating it (bugs will | | | | Don?t be fooled |
| die if they attempt to live off it). | | | | There are many products that seem healthy on the |
| Why is enriched flour bad? | | | | front but in reality they are not. If the bread you are |
| When the bran and the germ (the parts of the | | | | buying says ?soft wheat? or ?multi-grain? make sure |
| wheat that contain vitamins and minerals) are | | | | you still read the ingredients. Most of these breads |
| removed, your body absorbs wheat differently. | | | | are primarily made with enriched flour. Even if the |
| Instead of being a slow, steady process through | | | | word ?enriched? is not there, if it does not say |
| which you get steady bursts of energy, your body | | | | ?whole? then it?s the same junk. Don?t get fooled |
| breaks down enriched flour too quickly, flooding the | | | | by color either. Even if it?s brown, unbleached wheat |
| blood stream with too much sugar at once. Your | | | | flour is still missing the bran and the germ that |
| body then has to work hard to absorb the excess | | | | contain essential nutrients as well as the fiber that |
| and stores it as fat. This causes quick highs and lows | | | | aids digestion. |
| in your blood-sugar level which can lead to type-two | | | | Look for products that say 100% whole wheat. |
| diabetes and obesity. All this and you?re not even | | | | Trader Joes carries spaghetti that is 100% whole |
| getting close to the amount of nutrients that whole | | | | wheat and tastes great. Even my father-in-law, Mr. |
| grains contain. | | | | Anti-health, likes it. |
| Whole grains | | | | 1 Corinthians 6: 19, 20 |
| Whole grains are richer in dietary fiber, antioxidants, | | | | ?You are not your own; you were bought at a price. |
| protein (and in particular the amino acid lysine), | | | | Therefore honor God with your body. |