There are a lot of dietary myths and legends around bread. Until recently, many nutritionists recommended completely eliminating this product from their diet, but recent studies by Spanish scientists have shown that bread cannot be completely abandoned.
Spanish scientists note that the problems of obesity and excess weight are not directly related to the consumption of bread. Bread by no means promotes 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 satiety in the stomach. In addition, this product is completely absorbed by the body. Of course, we are not talking about a constant diet of bread. Biologists, by the way, argue that any bread, including white bread, which has been persecuted by nutritionists for many years, is beneficial. However, you should avoid baked goods with a lot of sugar, it is this that leads to the deposition of fat. And, of course, if you consume more calories (from any type of food) than you expend, this will certainly lead to the appearance of extra pounds. That is why sweet baked goods contribute to rapid weight gain, since they are very high in calories.
In recent decades, the assortment of bakeries in stores has increased significantly. Grain and bran bread can now be found there. It should be noted that the presence of this "healthy" bread would have surprised bakers of past centuries a lot, since they tried to rid the bread of ballast substances - 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 in any bread, but in grain and bran, they are present in large quantities, remove unnecessary and frankly harmful substances from the body, being natural adsorbents.
Bread with additives
If you still doubt the usefulness of any type of bread, give your preference to multigrain and whole grain breads. Vitamins and useful minerals are often added to such products, most often they are phosphorus, magnesium, iron and vitamins B2, B1 and E. White bread rarely boasts such a set of trace elements, therefore, formally it can be considered less useful, although it is also fast provides a feeling of fullness and aids digestion.
The most popular type of healthy or "dietary" bread is bran. Bran has the useful property of absorbing all kinds of harmful substances that enter the body with food, moreover, they absorb allergens and significantly increase immunity. Bran bread is high in fiber, protein and vitamins.
