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Have You Thought About Your disease.

These reasons above tell you


why eating white bread, pasta, and rice
are dangerous to your health.
Starches in moderation can be
helpful to your health. If your diet
contains a high amount of refined sugars,
then your insulin levels could rise. The
digestion rate of starch is faster now than
it was before breads and cereals were
processed. The high insulin level is
caused by this high rate of digestion.
The pancreas is forced to produce more
insulin to digest the starches. In
marshmallow or gummy candy, starches
can sometimes replace gelatins.
Starches contain very little fat, saturated
Portion Sizes? fat, or cholesterol.
In this news article you will be
informed about the dangers of eating
white rice, bread, and pasta, soda and
sweets and why you should limit the
portions of these in your diet. I have
found that white rice, pasta, and bread
have bran and germ removed from them
during processing. Germ and bran are
rich and dietary fiber, omegas, and
essential nutrients, vitamins, and
minerals such as vitamin E,
phosphorous, zinc, and fatty acids.
White pasta and bread are made out of
white flour. White flour is bleached In the article Demolish the Food
using potassium bromate or chlorine Pyramid
dioxide gas to remove any color. It also (http://harvardmagazine.com/2001/11/de
makes the baking properties more molish-the-food-pyrami.html) states that
predictable. Bleaching also gives a refined grains are not healthy for you.
product such as bread a longer shelf life. Instead, they suggest whole grains. The
When they are processed essential USDA recommends 6-11 daily servings
nutrients are removed. With just raw of bread, cereal, rice, and pasta. Since
starch left most bacteria won’t eat it. the USDA does not specify whether you
Law in the United States states white should be eating whole grains or refined
rice must be reenriched with vitamins B, grains, their suggestion is not necessarily
B3, and iron before being sold. I also the healthiest one. The Harvard food
have found that white rice breaks down pyramid suggests that you eat whole
faster than brown rice, which causes a grains at every meal and refined grains,
more drastic insulin reaction. This can soda, and sweets sparingly. These foods
cause weight gain, diabetes, and heart are rich in starches. As stated earlier in
our newsletter, the starchy foods can
raise insulin and blood glucose levels.
Over time this can create diabetes.
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