Grains are part of a balanced meal, but people have taken the sandwich to a new plateau. We have bacon lettuce and tomato sandwiches that has butter and mayonnaise on white toast. Delicious, and not bad in any way except it is just one small piece of a daily intake of calories, carbohydrates, fat, and protein. If planned right the BLT is fine, but if no plan exists, then every dietician in the world will bad mouth this defenseless sandwich.
White bread and crackers are made with white flour; it got that color through bleaching. The bleach kills all the good stuff that your body can use, so they cannot be considered a healthy food. Besides that, the butter, mayonnaise, peanut butter, jelly, sliced processed cheese, bologna, salami, hamburger and many other sorts of sandwich makings are the real culprit to keeping the bread lover overweight. If bread and crackers were given the heave ho, I am sure a better balanced, less readily available substitute will end up being healthier and less fattening.
The darker the bread, the more molasses was added to the dough. This makes the bread sweeter but not necessarily healthier. More rye flour is used, but that just cuts down on the white flour being used, but does not make up for the added calories and sugars. If you must have a little bread with your meals, try French or Italian, as they have less fat than most breads, but keep the amount small if possible. Staying away from the butter, oleo, mayonnaise, and peanut butter will probably cause a weight shift.
Crackers in soup do two things. It helps soak up the broth and helps make it more solid. This fills the belly faster and fuller. The soup was designed to give nutrition and taste. The crackers are all extra that takes away from nutrition by adding white flour and salt, but also takes away from the taste by allowing you to eat it faster. In the end, you stuff it down just to feel better.
There is nothing wrong with bread and crackers, they are the backbone of every poor families meal, and can take credit for generations of poor people worldwide. But this is a diet question and diet questions almost always mean something to do with health or a weight problem, so this does not change the fact that bread and crackers are good. I am not saying they are good for you, but they are good. Anyone concerned with diet should look inside their own head for a diet problem and a diet solution, instead of blaming the food. The food will never be to blame. It's just food. But regulating the intake of food is the problem and the solution. Overweight people and people with physical problems should consider eliminating certain foods from their diet for an easier control over their physical condition.
Spaghetti and potatoes along with bread are the basic foods that can keep you alive the cheapest. When times get tough, these are the foods that people rely on to get them through the day. Eventually, the people doing this will get sick. While these foods will sustain life for quite a while, they are not the healthiest way to live. Years ago when men went out on ships for months at a time, they learned of scurvy. The crew would go nuts and get weak and die. One day it was noticed by one particular ships captain that his crew had never had scurvy, but he always shared the kegs of wine with the crew. After some investigation it was learned that the wine would stop scurvy. Scurvy is the lack of vitamin C which only comes from something grown in sunlight. Fruit has vitamin C. Placing pine needles in boiling water and making a tea out of it will aid against scurvy, but only you can stop wolfing down steak and cheese subs.
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