From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!zehntel!sytek!menlo70!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!courtney Newsgroups: net.cooks Title: Re: white vs. whole wheat bread - (nf) Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.728 Posted: Wed Mar 9 12:01:32 1983 Received: Sat Mar 12 07:08:53 1983 #R:uiucdcs:8600013:hp-pcd:3500006:000:1489 hp-pcd!courtney Mar 9 09:53:00 1983 I don't think white bread is exactly a scapegoat, but it is a classic example of the substition of "bad" food in place of "good" food. Humans are animals... we have appetites, and there is a wide variety nutritious foods available to satisfy that appetite. And if you happen to believe that our bodies are better genetically adapted to "natural" foods (seeing as though we have had only the last 30 or so years to genetically adapt to processed foods), it makes sense that WHENEVER you substitute empty food for whole food that you are doing your body a dis-service. In other words, you could choose to eat a spoonful of white sugar and a vitamin pill instead of eating white bread, and your body would be getting about the same stuff. On the other hand, if whenever you are hungry you were to reach for fruit or whole wheat bread or some other REAL food, your body would be much better off. I once heard that (based on sales) the average US citizen consumes 80 pounds of white sugar a year... the worst of it is (apparently) not that white sugar is POISONOUS, but rather that whenever you DO eat such worthless food you are NOT eating something GOOD for you... ie, I don't believe that there is any such thing as ENOUGH good food... ALL food that you put in your body should be GOOD food (unless you are just eating/drinking for some reason other than feeding your body, which, for most of us, has its time and place... always?) Courtney