Cakes, Cookies, and other Prepacked/Fast/Processed Baked Goods Are Even Worse Than You Think

In this article, Dr. Joseph Mercola discusses how the bleaching processed used to make flour white destroys the nutrition in flour-based products.  Bleaching also turns flour into a tool to create diabetes in the human body!  Bleached flour is treated with toxic chlorine gas and a whole host of other chemicals.  One of the byproducts of this is bleaching process is alloxan, which is used to induce diabetes in lab animals for drug testing.  

According to Dr. Mercola, the first major consumer advocate was Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, MD, who eventually became known as the “Father of the Pure Food and Drugs Act” of 1906.  Dr. Wiley was head of the Bureau of Chemistry, which was the precursor to the FDA. Wiley crusaded against benzoic acid, sulfites, saccharin, AND BLEACHED FLOUR, among other food additives and adulterants.  Dr. Wiley felt so strongly about preventing the bleaching of flour that he took it all the way to the Supreme Court. They ruled that flour could not be bleached or “adulterated” in any way.  However, it was never enforced.  Let's take control of our health and prevent diabetes.  Try fresh or frozen vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds as snacks instead.