Thursday, April 04, 2002


are you wearing eyeglass today because you ate too much white bread as a child?

scientists at the university of colorado think the answer could be yes. this new research seems to suggest that diet may be as important in near-sightedness as genes and environmental factors, such as reading in poor light and computer screens.

i'm a big lover of bread, and of course as a child, all we ever had was horrible supermarket white bread. bunny bread, to be exact. this probably explains why i'm personally as blind as a bat! that aside, while this new research is far from definitive, it offers further encouragement to one of my major themes. . .

readers, bake your own bread and use more whole grains in it. i know, i know -- many adults and almost all children refuse to eat whole wheat bread. they dislike the bitter aftertaste often found in whole-wheat bread. fortunately, hard white winter wheat lacks the bitter compounds found in the red wheat normally ground for whole wheat flour. try using king arthur's whole-grain flour from white winter wheat for a sweeter, more pleasing bread.

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