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What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Bread Every Day

No matter how you slice it, bread is a staple of the Western diet. From toast at breakfast to sandwiches at lunch to the breadbasket at dinnertime, it's not difficult to eat this standby ingredient every day (or even at every meal). Over the years, though, particularly as low-carb and gluten-free diets have grown in popularity, bread has gotten a bad rap. But is it really a bad thing to eat bread every day?

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White Bread Kills

But if the anti-gluten craze is new, fear of bread is not. For the last century and a half of our history we’ve been intermittently spasmed by fears over bread. In the 1920s and ‘30s, a bread panic called amylophobia swept the land, boosted by a leopard-skin-wearing diet guru named Bernarr MacFadden who toured the country and called bread the “staff of death.”

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