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This wonderful fluffy food has been around for over 30,000 years. We love to eat it with peanut butter and jelly, grill it with cheese slices in between, and during the summer roast it over the fire with pie filling in the middle. Many love bread, except not your body. There are a few things you need to know about bread, or lets generalize to \u201cwheat\u201d, before you continue to consume:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Consumption of wheat can slow down your digestive system. There is one tube that goes from your mouth to your waste hole (you know what I mean) and when you add fluffy carbohydrates to the tube. The slower your food digests, the faster it will expand and add inches to your waistline.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Eating bread can spike your blood sugar levels. This is bad because you blood sugar spikes up high and then decreases quickly which causes you to become hungry faster. This is why you want more food even after you just ate<\/p>\n
\u2022 You won\u2019t be able to go to a field and pick out your favorite bread. That is because your delicious, fluffy goodness goes through many processes making it a \u201cprocessed food\u201d and we all know how bad for us processed foods are.<\/p>\n
So if you still plan to consume bread, because let\u2019s be real, it is very hard to stay away from it, then you need to consider you\u2019re the ingredients of the bread you do choose. The biggest tip I keep in mind when I am shopping is that \u201cEnriched Wheat Flour\u201d is NOT<\/strong> in the ingredients list. Whole grains are a great healthy addition to your every day diet, but make sure that the product you are eating states \u201c100 Percent Whole-Grain\u201d otherwise the product probably only includes a small amount of real whole grains.<\/p>\n After learning this few facts and tips on why we should steer clear of bread, here is my mission for you: Don\u2019t eat bread for 7 days<\/strong>. Don\u2019t laugh, because I am serious. This isn\u2019t a \u201cdiet\u201d that I want you to try, it is a change in eating habits that will make you feel better and ultimately look slimmer. Once you see how the bread-less life feels, you may not ever want to go back. If you are up for the challenge, tweet or post to @Warhawkfitness with #NoBreadWeekChallenge and we will give you tips and recipes on how to keep going!<\/p>\n \u201cAlways remember that it doesn\u2019t matter how slow you go, as long as you keep on going\u201d<\/p>\n ~Kenzi Weidman<\/p>\n Sources: Why is Bread Bad For You? The Shocking Truth<\/u><\/a>, Knowing the Difference Between Whole Wheat Flour and Enriched Wheat Flour<\/u><\/a>, No Bread Challenge<\/u><\/a>, A Simple View of Your Digestive System<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This wonderful fluffy food has been around for over 30,000 years. We love to eat it with peanut butter and jelly, grill it with cheese slices in between, and during the summer roast it over the fire with pie filling in the middle. Many love …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2522,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77907,77901,55568,77904,77905,77902,55528,77903,43741,77906,77908],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-blood-sugar","tag-bread","tag-carbohydrates","tag-digestive-system","tag-eating-habits","tag-enriched-wheat-flour","tag-kenzi-weidman","tag-no-bread-challenge","tag-warhawk-fitness","tag-wheat","tag-whole-grains","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/warhawkfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/warhawkfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/warhawkfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/warhawkfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2522"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/warhawkfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/warhawkfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/warhawkfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/warhawkfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/warhawkfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/warhawkfitness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}