Bread in the Modern Diet

                                                                DOES BREAD MAKE YOU FATBread has been a basic in the diet for the last five thousand years.  It is often the last resort to prevent starvation.  We have eaten bread almost daily in history, why did we not have an epidemic of obesity?                                                                    WHY ARE WE NOW FATThe modern western diet is making us fat, and modern bread is a part of this diet.  What has happened to bread in the last few hundred years to make this happen?  Bread is an important part of our diet, and someday we may have to live on bread alone.  But our current bread is different from historical bread.                                                                        BREAD HAS CHANGEDThe recipe for bread is the same as it has always been.  The modern grains are similar to those in the past.  What has changed is the processing of wheat.  Risen Bread requires four ingredients: water, salt, flour, and yeast.  Look on the ingredient label of the bread you by in the store.  I will explain what has happened and what to do about it.  This is not a cookbook.