Is Wheat Flour A Silent Killer?

“The best thing since sliced bread” is a famous marketing catch phrase that was coined by the Wonder Bread Company. But really how good is sliced bread for you?

Most of us grew up eating bread in sandwiches and with our food. Bread however isn't what it used to be. Bread used to be much more nutritious, but today’s commercial white bread is only one step above junk food and full of empty calories and toxins too.

What Changed?

Today's wheat flour that is used to make most of the bread products at your local supermarket has been heavily processed and refined, meaning it’s been mostly or entirely stripped of its nutritional content. Then, to create the illusion that this flour is still somehow healthy after all that it’s gone through, manufacturers “enrich” and/or “fortify” the flour with synthetic vitamins and minerals that do nothing for the body in terms of nourishment.

A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition back in 1971, found that the milling process alone denatures or destroys nearly half of the nutrients naturally found in a whole wheat berry within the first 24 hours following extraction. After only 72 hours, nearly all of the nutrients are lost, including most of the B vitamins, vitamin E and fiber that are present in the bran and germ of wheat kernels.

The milling process also exposes the nutrients in the wheat to irreversibly damaging oxidative stress. The refining and bleaching process adds toxic bromine, which bleaches the wheat.

Highly-processed wheat flour is mostly starch and is nothing like the whole wheat grain that it started from. It contains almost none of the 22 vitamins and minerals that are naturally present in whole wheat and only trace amounts of fiber, omega-6 fats, vitamin E and amino acids.

The fortification process adds synthetic vitamins to the flour that the body can't easily assimilate. To make it worse, the folic acid added is a synthetic form of that the body has a hard time metabolizing. It doesn't undergo the same metabolic cycle as folate and instead goes straight to the liver where it’s processed so inefficiently that most of it ends up entering the bloodstream in a non-metabolized state, which can promote cancer.

The herbicide Roundup is the most common herbicide used in north America. Roundup has been named by the World Health Organization as a probable carcinogen. Roundup is used in abundance in most non-organic wheat fields.

The commercial wheat of today is very high in gluten. This gluten, in combination with Roundup, genetically modified foods that are consumed and pharmaceuticals, both prescription and over the counter, have significantly contributed to leaky gut syndrome. Leaky gut allows larger molecules to "leak" into the bloodstream. This can cause inflammation, which is the hallmark of many chronic diseases. This can eventually also lead to autoimmune disease and even to cancer.

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