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Article: Flour power: a guide to buying bread. (includes nutritional chart)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 Center for Science in the Public Interest. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Ah, September. Your kids show off their spiffy new lunch boxes while you scramble to think of what to pack in them. Office brown-baggers face the same dilemma year-round.
Sandwiches are the universal answer. Don't believe us? The average American ate almost 54 pounds of bread in 1995. Granted, that's far below the 160+ pound the average European eats, but still quite a hunk of dough.
Of course, not all breads are created equal.
Some are made from 100 percent whole grains, with all the vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phytochemicals intact. They're the ones that may help cut your risk of heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.
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