Around the bread there are a huge number of dietary myths and legends. Until recently, many nutritionists recommended completely eliminating this product from their diet, but recent studies by Spanish scientists have shown that you can’t completely refuse bread.
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Spanish scientists note that obesity and overweight are not directly related to eating bread. Bread does not contribute to weight gain, but rather helps to get rid of extra pounds and improve digestion.
Useful properties of bread
The thing is that even a small amount of bread creates a feeling of fullness in the stomach. In addition, this product is fully absorbed by the body. Of course, we are not talking about the constant nutrition of bread. Biologists, by the way, argue that any bread, including white bread, which has been subjected to persecution by nutritionists for many years, benefits. However, you should avoid bakery products with a lot of sugar, it is he who leads to the deposition of fats. Well, of course, if you consume more calories (from any kind of food) than you spend, this will certainly lead to the appearance of extra pounds. That is why sweet bakery products contribute to rapid weight gain, because they are very high in calories.
In recent decades, the assortment of bakeries in stores has increased markedly. Now you can find grain and bran bread there. It should be noted that the presence of this “healthy” bread would have surprised many bakers of past centuries, as they tried to rid the bread of ballast substances - the grain shell and bran, to make it tastier and softer. And now these ballast substances are called dietary fiber, they are considered very useful and even specially added to bread. Dietary fiber, which is found in any bread, but in cereal and bran, is present in large quantities, remove unnecessary and frankly harmful substances from the body, being natural adsorbents.
Additive bread
If you still doubt the usefulness of any type of bread, give your preference to multi-grain and whole grain bread. Vitamins and useful minerals are often added to such products, most often phosphorus, magnesium, iron and vitamins B2, B1 and E. White bread rarely boasts a similar set of trace elements, so formally it can be considered less useful, although it is also fast provides a feeling of fullness and promotes digestion.
The most popular type of healthy or “dietary” bread is bran bread. Bran has a useful property to absorb all kinds of harmful substances that enter the body with food, in addition, they absorb allergens and significantly increase immunity. Chopped bread is high in fiber, protein and vitamins.
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