One of my all-time favorite foods is bread, but like many of our favorite foods, not always the best for us when it comes to our health – especially what’s available as our options today. As most of us know, most all bread is a processed food-like product, it’s not real food (we don’t find slices of bread hanging from plants or trees, right?). It’s man-made. And our man-made options for a quality bread today are few and far between. When I do have it, its always on my reward day (I’ll always have bread in my Italian DNA for the occasional indulgence) where my body can handle the nutritional stress processed bread provides; as most bread we find in the grocery store today uses highly refined flour, is heated and nearly, if not totally, void of vitamins, minerals & enzymes – or dead food.In fact, do you know why we see on many brand name grain/bread packaging (as well as milk) the words “Good Source of”, “Fortified” and “Enriched”? Usually with Calcium, Vitamin A, D, E, etc. attached to...
