The Bread Index

Health, social problems linked to bread


- Studies show that more than 98% of convicted criminals are bread eaters.
- Nine out of 10 violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
- Fully half of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
- Bread is made from a substance called “dough”, less than a half-pound of which has been proven to suffocate a mouse. The average person eats more bread than that in a single week.
- Primitive tribal societies which do not eat bread have a low incidence of skin cancer, food poisoning, and radiation sickness.
- Bread has been proven to be highly addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water begged for bread after only two days.
- Bread is a dangerous “gateway” food, leading the user into “harder” items such as butter, peanut butter, jelly, and even “cold cuts”.
- Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90% water, eating bread could eventually turn your body into a soggy, gooey mass of bread pudding.
- Newborn babies can choke on bread.
- Bread is baked a temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit — a temperature which could kill an adult in less than one minute.
- Most Canadian bread-eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between a valid scientific study and one that is based on statistical nonsense.


From the CCPA Monitor, published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

 

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