No, wholemeal bread is not good! There are two reasons for this. The first one is that during the process of making, bakers add more gluten to make the bread rise (as pointed out by Glickman in Beat IBS: A simple, five-step plan for restoring your digestive health).
However, the second reason is about a much bigger issue.
Dark side of modern wheat grain
Even if bakers do not add gluten to wholemeal bread, you still have to stay away from it. Why?
- Isn’t it something natural?
- Isn’t it something that we humans have been eating since ages ago?
- In other words, how can it be not good?
- Why should people, with or without IBS, stay away from it?
The truth is there is a dark side to modern technology. And the two invisible hands behind the wheat grain we eat are: Hybridisation and gene-modifying technology. Dr. Perlmutter, a renowned neurologist, claims that the wheat grain we eat has:
almost no genetic, structural, or chemical likeness to what hunter-gatherers might have stumbled upon.
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar–Your Brain’s Silent Killers
Simply put, what our grand-grand-grand parents ate was something natural. However, modern wheat grain is not natural and this unnaturalness is not healthy!
