preying on gullibility

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It amazes me what people will believe. Here is a site

http://211.230.186.64/109.html which is selling a recipe for " Hunza bread " .

One recipe for bread for $7. Someone is sure making a pretty penny on that

deal. I have bought bread making books for about the same price which gave

me recipes for 20-30 breads, as well as lots of info on breadmaking in

general. The website above came to me as SPAM =-- a sure sign that someone

is selling something I should mistrust!

 

The Hunza bread supposedly kills hunger & appetite for 5-7 hours

after eating 100 calories worth of the bread. Assuming that were true

(which I doubt) the effect on health would be devastating. Caloric

starvation puts the body into survival mode. Metabolism drops. So when

one eats a real meal (eating 300 calories of hunza bread for life would be a

death sentence), one then will gain weight far faster than normal because

the body will hang onto every calorie one eats until the metabolism adjusts

back to normal. So one will re-gain weight far faster than if one had lost

weight thru a more gradual means. So I suspect people will (once again)

turn to the hunza bread to lose the weight they just re-gained -- thus

slowing down metabolism again & repeating the cycle. Such yo-yo diets are

devastating to long term health. From what I have read (coupled with my

own personal experience) one needs to find a regimen of foods in a balanced

diet one can eat day-in & day-out for life, slowly adjusting it over time as

one discovers better & better ways to eat. IMO, the quicker one learns

this, the better off one will be long term.

 

The " hunza bread " is (I assume) mainly grain. Modern humans

already eat far too many carbohydrates for good health. Fasting on bread

is just not good. The normal modern diet over-stimulates the pancreas to

produce insulin. Diabetes is rife in our culture & much of it comes from

carbohydrate abuse, rather than from bad genetics. Eating bread on a daily

basis is not (IMO) a good thing, but eating meals containing *only* bread is

far worse.

 

Humans need many different kinds of nutrients for optimal health --

not just those which can be obtained in any single food. To go on a severe

caloric restricted diet would not be healthy. To do so by eating a single

food (especially a bread!) seems to me to be utter folly.

 

In a way, I am curious as to the details of what is in this " Hunza

bread " . Not because I want to try it. But so I can see just how bad it

is in-detail for human nutrition. But I sure have no interest in paying

good money for this scam just to satisfy my curiosity.

 

 

Alobar

 

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