As I had told you in a prior article, my doctor told me I could not eat like I did when I was younger.
I now call her the “Carb Nazi”, because she told me “No Carbs For You!”
White flour is the most used ingredient in our diets and the cause of obesity.
White flour is all our favorite foods like pastas, cookies, bagels and breads.
What Does White Flour To Our Waistlines?
First of all, white flour most of whole grains vitamins and minerals removed in the milling process.
Let’s call White Flour by its food element name “Starch”.
Starch is long chains of SUGAR molecules linked together.
Did you notice the word “SUGAR”, in the definition of Starch.
Since starch is really just sugar that is why pasta, cookies and breads taste so good.
We crave the sugar high that come from eating starch in the form of while flour foods.
To compound our desire for the foods that make us obese they add preservatives and high fructose corn syrup to most baked goods.
White flour has the same effect my your body as eating refined sugar.
It causes:
- Diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, stokes and our problem obesity.
- Inflammatory diseases like cancers and arthritis
- Fatty Liver Disease
- Suppressed Immune System
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Hypoglycemia
- Fatigue and other health problems.
White Flour Substitutes:
- Whole Wheat Flour- not just “Wheat Flour”
- Soy Flour- has a nutty flavor plus plenty of protein
- Durum Wheat
Rather than baking and creating your White Flour substitutes here are brands that offer non-white flour products. Be sure to check the ingredients list to make sure whole wheat is the first, and main, ingredient, otherwise, your just getting a few grains mixed into regular white bread.
- Barilla Plus Spaghetti
- Westbrae Natural Organic Whole Wheat Lasagna
- Lifestream Organic Whole Grain-Flax Linguini
- Trader Joe’s Organic Whole Wheat Rotelle Pasta
- Tofu Shirataki Noodles
- Brown Rice in place of processed white rice
Avoid Fake Low-Carb Products
- Don’t eat “low carb” versions of high carb stuff, like cookies, bars, chocolate, bread, pasta or ice cream – unless you are SURE of the ingredients (perhaps from making it yourself).
- Avoid products with the words “net carbs” on them. That’s usually just a way to fool you.
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