Wheat Nutrition

You've weighed your options carefully, studied the pros and the cons, and decided that the vegetarian lifestyle is right for you. But where do you start making the changes? Do you go cold turkey?Do you adopt a more gradual approach to transitioning to vegetarianism? However you choose to make the change, you can begin to achieve the health benefits of vegetarianism by significantly cutting down on the amount of meats consumed, and making...

We have all seen it, 100% whole wheat bread that sits next to the white bread. It looks like white bread, but it says enriched. Enriched with what? Well, let me back up a little. When wheat is harvested the whole grain is taken to the refinery. REFINERY, did you see that! The wheat is heated to a point when the germ and the bran fall off. What is left is the starch, the white part, the not good for you part. The part that has a long shelf life...

Personally, I have always been an advocate of whole wheat, but I have been seeing a lot of Gluten-Free-Diet ads and labels about lately. At the grocery store, on the internet, in restaurant menus and even at the Bakery with BIG exclamation points at the end (!!!) the signs are all around me. I've even seen gluten free pet foods. But if you had asked me, even a month ago, 'exactly what is Gluten?' I would've replied, ' I think it's an ingredient...

Junk food addicts argue with health food nuts, asserting white bread to be the best. The health food nuts retaliate exclaiming about how much better store bought whole wheat bread is than white bread.The battle rages on...On which side of this debate do you stand?For that matter, which side should you REALLY be pulling for?Lets weigh all the facts, the faults about each choice and determine which one we should honestly be proclaiming as "the...

People have been eating bread since before the invention of writing. Bread is appreciated for it's taste and texture, And is included in the menu of many people. We all eat bread. But is it good for our diets? First, let's discuss bread calories. White bread calories count for 100 grams is approximately 220 calories. This means that a bread slice has about 70 calories. The same goes for pita bread calories. White rolls have a bit more with 270...

People have been eating bread since before the invention of writing. Bread is appreciated for it's taste and texture, And is included in the menu of many people. We all eat bread. But is it good for our diets? First, let's discuss bread calories. White bread calories count for 100 grams is approximately 220 calories. This means that a bread slice has about 70 calories. The same goes for pita bread calories. White rolls have a bit more with 270...