[elfcard]

Bread is a heavily processed food, and it's essentially sugar, and it's so easily broken down into glucose, this process is so easy, it first starts in your mouth as amalayse (sp?) begins digestion while you masticate. A common intro bio lesson is to chew a soda cracker until it begins to get sweet. Whole wheat breads are sugar with soluble and insoluble materials that aids in moving food material through the gut because we evolved eating a lot of crap that we couldn't digest. So to suggest that I've evolved in 7000 years to digest milk, but not evolved to no longer require fibre requires genetic proof, and I've not seen that study. Evolution doesn't work that way regardless, and certainly not over as little as 200 generations that were geographically locked genetically for all but the last few hundred years. That said, just because it's processed, doesn't immediately make it bad for us. Olive oil, yoghurt, etc... all have some observable health benefits. And products like cheeses and bacon are absolutely processed, and show little to no health benefit, but if you took them out of my diet, I may suffer depression, so I unscientifically say they cure depression (in me).

[erkkie]

there's lots of vitamin k in (real) cheese, I hear you with bacon though :)