Number 15 Flour Treatment

As some of you know, I sometimes put some of the chapters of my book Diet and Health in eBook form.  I do podcasts of the chapters, and sometimes the podcasts are difficult to follow if the book has a list of items or definitions.  Sometimes the book more easily displays the content.  When this happens, I add a not at the end of the podcast that I will be putting the written chapter in eBook form. This chapter reviews the history of bread making and how modern bread is simply not the same.  Part of the problem is all the additives and I list those that you find on the ingredient list of the bread you buy.  Sometimes the bread makers are a little sneaky about the additives. Bread for 5000 years has add four ingredients.  Flour (usually wheat), salt, water, yeast. These ingredients have not changed except the flour.  You will see how the four has changed quite a bit. For thousands of years you could survive on just bread.  I really doubt you can do that on modern bread.  Now our problem isn't how to survive, but the epidemic of insulin resistance and its subsequent consequences.   Historical bread kept us alive.    Modern bread is killing us.  Well , maybe not killing us, but definitely making us less healthy.