TENTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST 2015 JOHN 6:24-35

To listen to some health gurus you’d think that bread would kill you. It’s high in carbs and can spike blood sugar levels, it contains “anti-nutrients”, which sounds really scary. I’d never even heard of an anti-nutrient – but now I have I’m not sure I will ever sleep again. I’m having visions of anti-social particles wearing leather jackboots, menacingly patrolling your sandwich looking for nutrients, and when they find some, beating them unconscious and then drowning them in the mayonnaise. Apparently, even in its non-processed form bread may raise bad cholesterol by a whopping 60%. And so there is now a thriving industry devoted to the slogan “The more you eat bread, the sooner you’re dead.” There’s a satirical email going around that is headed “BREAD IS DANGEROUS”. It goes on to state that according to research .

 

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