Diet Wise Academy

218 Diet Wise

Use the following table as a guide:

2 tbsp arrowroot flour = 1 egg

2 tbsp potato starch = 1 egg

1 heaping tbsp soy powder + 2 tbsp water = 1 egg

1 banana, mashed = 1 egg in cakes or muffins

Bread replacements

Last but not least, what can you do when bread (wheat) is an issue?
Long known as the staff of life, bread is actually a food that
causes a great deal of ill health due to the widespread prevalence of wheat
allergy and intolerance. There is also a great deal of misleading propaganda
from manufacturers. An example is their use of the term ‘improvers’ as an
ingredient. These additives fluff up the loaf to make it lighter; that means
you are sold more air and less bread.
Another deception is the redefinition of ‘wholemeal.’ Traditionally
this sort of bread contained only wholemeal flour, yeast and something to
texture the rough grain (usually soya oil or similar). Due to an increasing
interest in healthy eating in the 1970s, more and more people began to turn
to this kind of loaf and abandoned commercial white bread. What did the
manufacturers do? They lobbied to have a law passed relaxing the legal
definition of wholemeal so that they could sell an inferior product to the
unsuspecting public under the label ‘wholemeal.’ Now, since 1984, bread
only has to contain wholemeal flour to be called wholemeal.
I shock many people with a paradox, which is contrary to the
accepted propaganda: white bread may be safer for you than whole grain!
Many wheat-intolerant individuals cannot eat the whole grain product but
the refined loaf has less of the characteristics of ‘wheatness’ and so may
not provoke any allergic response. If you are one of these individuals, try
to get a simply made white loaf from a small local baker. They tend to use
fewer ingredients and bake a better product anyway.
Avoid loaves guaranteed ‘fresh for days.’ The ideal loaf for allergics
is one that is uneatable the next day and has to be bought daily, as the
French do. A loaf that is too poisonous for mold and bacteria isn’t very
healthy for humans, after all.