We are all sinners – it doesn’t matter what we try to do, each day there is a new scientific breakthrough announcing something new (usually fun stuff) that is bad for us. Sex, drugs and rock and roll are all bad for us. Everything useful is bad. Using the Internet can become addictive. Making calls on our mobile phone can fry our brains. Covering our food with cling film and then using it in the microwave can give us cancer. Apples are now coated in so many chemicals they are dangerous. Everything we do is bad for the environment. It’s impossible to be good.
The supermarket is a veritable minefield. We all need to become nutrition experts to understand the real message on packaging. Those handy and so called healthy cereal bars that have ‘low fat’ printed on the label in big letters also have ‘loads of sugar’ printed in small letters on the back which of course will turn into high fat once eaten. Boxes of cereal with happy cartoon pictures of monkeys or tigers printed on them in order to cause arguments between mothers and children and cause embarrassment and generally high stress levels for all concerned are the most unhealthy product. They want us to think that they are full of vitamins that will aid the growth of our offspring. But those little balls of chocolate flavoured sugar for breakfast are most undesirable, ask any primary teacher! Don’t be fooled. They are full of the dreaded and nasty white stuff. Sugar.
Now I am not one to be a scare mongering alarmist, but all you sinners out there beware of the white stuff. Ignore the advertisers ‘low fat’ labels because it’s the white stuff that should be avoided. But be extra careful out there, the white stuff, meaning sugar is not the only dangerous substance. White flour and anything made with it is linked to late on set type 2 diabetes. Never mind the horror of cigarettes and alcohol, be afraid of all biscuits (yes, even McVities half coated digestives – I’m sorry!), all cake, even when its your birthday, white bread and pasta are all made with white flour.
Real Facts Alert! Alloxan is the name of the substance that makes flour beautifully white. Scientists have known that there is a link between alloxan and diabetes but it is not widely advertised by the food industry because…well they want us to keep lining their pockets with our dosh obviously. But be wise oh gentle consumer. Go Whole. Do your insides a favour and convert, starting from tomorrow, to whole wheat everything. And I don’t want to hear any of your winging about loving Mighty white or Mothers Pride. It’s not real food. In fact all bakers in Hong Kong need a good talking to because it is near impossible to buy any whole wheat product in a local bakery. This, I am informed, is the fault of the western influence in Asia. As well as introducing a taste for processed white flour products we also introduced the taste for white milled or polished rice. Up until us westerners started interfering with the diet in these parts all rice was brown. Oh no! Another sin.
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