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Today we choose an interesting topic for all of our beloved readers. Did you ever think about what happens if you stop eating bread for a month? Did you ever think about the pros and cons of bread? Most of you are now thinking is bread is harmful. Just read our blog till the end to get to know what health outcomes are when you stop eating bread.
Before starting, you all must know about the calories and nutrients facts of bread.
One piece of bread (25 Grams) contains 67 calories in total out of which 1G fat, 13 G carbs, and protein are only about 2G. Bread packed with a high amount of carbs that is about 13 G in a single serving.
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Most of you think what happens if bread contains more carbs? In the metabolic process, the carbs are broken down into glucose, when glucose increased in the body it leads toward boosting blood sugar level. Many studies show that eating food that is high in the glycemic index may lead to boosting blood sugar levels and hunger hormones.
Some studies show that for people who eat high glycemic food their weight increase significantly. Eating high carbs foods may increase the risk of diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Bread contains antinutrients that are not beneficial for health at all. It prevents the body to absorb other nutrients. We are talking about bread which means, bread that is made from processed wheat called white bread. These bread are deeply processed and it does not contain any healthy nutrients.
Most of the people in the whole world think that bread is light and full of nutrients food to start a morning. But they didn’t know that bread didn’t contain any healthy nutrients. Why do people choose bread to eat? Because it is easy to make, pour some butter o jam and your breakfast is ready. Did you ever notice after eating bread, after a while, you feel hungrier? Did you ever think about why this happened, it happens because bread does not contain any healthy nutrients? Enriched with carbs that break down into glucose, activate the hunger hormone.
So next whenever you are going to consume bread or white bread must think is it giving you energy or not? What happens if you drive a car with a flat tire, it not only affects the tire but also affects the rim and engine. A flat tire effect all the car, and bad eating habits or bad food choices affect the full body. Most of us do not think about it, we just what we want without knowing is fruitful to eat or not. So read this article to know more about bread and what happens when you stop eating it.
What happens when you stop eating bread? 13 effects on your body if you stop eating bread.
Here is the complete list that will happen when you stop eating bread:
- Feel more energy
- Lose water weight in the body
- Feel like you have Flu
- Reduce the risk of other diseases
- You Don’t Have Many Cravings
- Lose weight
- Boost digestion system
- Clearer skin
- Workout suffer
- Anxiety
- Cholesterol level
- High Risk of Diabetes
1. Feel More Energy:
As we told early bread contains a high level of carbs and these carbs intake release a chemical that helps us to relax. Most of you never notice when you eat bread you feel lazy or sleepy just because of your high-level carbs intake.
High carbs and glycemic food are the main cause of increased blood sugar levels. When our blood sugar level tends to increase we feel more energetic but when blood sugar goes down we may feel tired.
Yes, it all happens just because of the higher intake of carbs that we ate in the form of bread. So overeating bread or any processed food may lead to boost many other diseases as well like heart disease, obesity, and diabetes.
So, the beard just gives us more energy for time being but it affects our health in long run. Must keep in mind when we are talking about bread, it's white bread or highly processed food, sugary sodas, white rice, and pastry. If you want to eat these then you must eat in moderation.
2. Lose Water Weight in the Body:
Most of you think what the meaning of losing water weight is. Don’t be worried here we tell what it means.
As we told you early bread contains 13G of carbs in a single piece. When you stop eating bread, you notice that your weight suddenly starts reducing. It’s not the fats that you are losing, it's water.
When we eat high carbohydrates, they are stored in the body as glycogen, and each gram of carbohydrate stores 3-4 times the weight of water.
3. Feel like You have Flu:
High carbs intake, means tons of glucose in the body. When we stop eating carbs, body glycogen level tends to decrease. Now the body starts dissolving fats, when this process starts you may feel bad breathe, dryness, dizziness, nausea. This flu is also called carbohydrate flu.
It’s all happen because when we suddenly cut off carbs intake the body starts burning energy that is stored in the form of glycogen. You feel all these in a start only.
You also call this keto flu or keto diet. When people want to reduce weight they intake high unsaturated fats and low carbs. When you start the keto diet you might feel symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, constipation.
4. Reduce the Risk of Other Diseases:
Normally, bread is low in vital nutrients such as protein, fiber, and vitamins. It contains antinutrients like gliadin and glutenin. These both do not provide any benefit to our bodies or health. It only negatively affects our bodies. Our body doesn’t digest gluten easily.
Gliadin and glutenin are types of gluten. Gliadin is water-insoluble gluten and glutenin is water-soluble. These both only help in shaping the bread. Some people are diagnosed with celiac disease which they can’t digest easily.
When we stop eating bread we are safe from different diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and chronic inflammation. Because our body doesn’t have enzymes that can digest this gliadin and glutenin easily.
5. You Don’t Have Many Cravings:
Bread only provides nutrients that are not beneficial for the body. When we intake more carbohydrates, these are easily digested because the body converts them into glucose.
At the start when the glucose level is high we feel more energy, when at lows down we also fall. When this happens, our hunger hormone activates and we feel hungry. We have carved to eat something. This thing tends to increase body weight.
When we stop eating bread or highly processed food, our carbs intake tends to below, this will help the body to feel full till next meal. For example, if you eat protein, fats-rich food, and low carbs food our full hormones activate that feel us full all day.
Fruits and vegetables are perfect to replace with bread and highly processed food. Because they make you feel full till next meal. On the other side, bread is rich in carbs and carbs convert to glucose and they feel you hungrier.
6. Lose weight:
As we told you early that bread contains nutrients that only boost weight. When you eat more processed product it will store in the form of glycogen and your body weight tend to increase.
What happens when you stop eating white bread and highly processed food? The simple answer is that your body weight starts reducing. So whenever you visit any nutritionist or dietitian they first ask you to stop eating bread, sugary products, and soda.
So when you stop eating a high level of carbohydrates your body starts burning extra fats that were stored in the body.
7. Boost Digestion System:
White bread is packed with gliadin and glutenin which are hard to digest by our body. Gluten doesn’t have any positive effect on our body structure, they only contribute to shaping food product.
When a specific enzyme for digesting gluten is not available in the body, it begins to significantly disrupt our digestive system.
When we stop eating high carbohydrates food, our digestive system starts improving. If our digestive system start malfunctioning it will disturb whole body function because it works the same as car engine work.
8. Clearer Skin:
Diet plays an important role in maintaining skin health. If we eat unhealthy food it affects our skin as well. For example, if you are diagnosed with celiac disease, and you still eating gluten food might start itching on your body.
There is an old saying that what you eat directly affects your outer look. Some study shows that eating highly processed food and bread boost sugar level, which may be linked to acne. Acne is a condition in which hair follicles are blocked with oil and dead skin this may lead to blackheads and pimples.
Most of us don’t know about this disease that we are sensitive to e.g. gluten.
9. Workout suffer:
Carbohydrates are your body's main source of energy for fueling all exercise, including fighting and resistance training. Removing carbohydrates will lead to a significant drop in energy levels. Decreasing levels of stored carbohydrates in your body will reduce your ability to produce strength and power. And the worse your workouts, the worse your results will be.
So buddies always try to intake carbs in moderation if you want maximum benefits.
10. Anxiety:
When you stop eating carbs it will directly increase your anxiety level. Most of you thinking about why this happens. Eating carbs help increase the feel-good hormone called serotonin. When we stop eating carbs it will directly affect mental health.
The less carbohydrate you eat, the more you get exhausted. So always eat carbohydrates in normal never stop eating suddenly it will badly affect mental health. Our brain uses carbohydrates as fuel for everything such as exercise, resistance, etc. if we do more exercise and intake 0 carbs that mean lesser serotonin production.
11. Bad Breath:
It happens if we stop eating carbs. Ingestion the zero carb diet helps lose water weight, this stuff dries out our mouth once the mouth dries up this makes smelly breathe.
How to deal with this smelly breathing? There is some cure available for this like drinking more water, intake less protein, and intaking some carbs.
This is the only way to improve stinky breathing.
Did you know that eating cucumber can help you get rid of bad breath in a matter of seconds? Try this amazing hack and say goodbye to your bad bread.
12. Cholesterol level:
As we eat more bread it boosts LDL bad cholesterol up to 60%.
When cholesterol level increased it will directly affect heart health. The heart is an important organ in the body that pumps blood to the whole body.
Some research shows that bread and processed foods can directly increase blood cholesterol levels. Bread increase blood cholesterol level without staying high in fat content, but there is still debate between nutritionist and medical professional.
But you must eat in moderation to get maximum health benefits.
13. High Risk of Diabetes:
As we told you early the body convert carbs into glucose, when glucose level increase it will directly increase the risk of diabetes.
So we suggest you don’t go with white bread it is not beneficial for your health.
Remarks:
As we described early that here bread means white bread and highly processed food is extremely harmful to health. We recommend you not to eat white bread and processed food. If you want to eat bread then go for whole-grain bread or gluten-free bread. Because these bread types are only a bit beneficial for your health. So next time when you are out for a grocery must-read label and buy whole grain or gluten-free bread.