Taking a break from news….I need to depart from my usual ranting on the stupidity of our political system…………especially when there is NOTHING new in the news……let’s talk about something we all enjoy….NOT sex! FOOD!
The bombardment continues with every passing day……multigrains are found everywhere and I mean everywhere……from kids crunchy cereals to side dishes for chicken……we are told all sorts of benefits from eating a diet with multigrains…..you know….you have been beat about the head with all these health claims……….so now ask yourself…….should I or shouldn’t I?
Glad you asked!
t is natural to assume that multigrain breads, pastas and cereals are healthy, as it seems unlikely that they would contain refined grains (which are much less healthy than whole grains). However, the law regarding ingredient descriptions actually allows companies to label their products as ‘multigrain’ foods even when their primary ingredient is refined grains.
Refined grains lacknutritionalvalue, and they are strongly correlated with weight gain.For example, huge study conducted by a team of researchers at Harvard Medical School found that the participants who ate the greatest amounts of refined grains were most likely to gain weight over the course of twelve years.
Indeed, they were almost 50% more likely to gain weight than the people who eat the most wholegrain products.
When regularly consumed, refined grains also come with a staggering 141% increase in your likelihood of developing the connected disorders that characterize metabolic syndrome (i.e. heart disease and diabetes).
When looking for breads and pastas, your best bet is to choosewholegrain and wholemeal products every time. Multigrain products do not always choose to display their ratio of refined to unrefined grains in a prominent place on the label, so it is smart to err on the side of caution.
What? Crap! What can we believe now?