Dieting: Bread is good for you | Mail Online: "Use your loaf!
It's been the scourge of dieters for years. Now, one baking obsessive celebrates as experts admit bread is actually good for you
By LYDIA SLATER
Last updated at 1:41 AM on 27th January 2011
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Dr Atkins must be spinning in his grave. After years of demonisation by the diet police, bread — crust, crumb and optional thick layer of golden butter — is back.
Sales of bread are rising for the first time in 36 years: Tesco, Asda and the Co-op have each reported an overall increase of up to 10 per cent, while speciality bakeries are mushrooming, their shelves groaning with ever more inventive breads, studded with everything from chocolate to potato.
And this week nutritionists have declared that far from being a food to avoid, bread is positively beneficial. It’s full of essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals, especially if you opt for wholegrain varieties with added nuts, seeds or dried fruit. "
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