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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celeriac" data-source="post: 968888" data-attributes="member: 188243">Your theory is pretty much accurate Sirmione, as bread has a higher Glycemic Index than sugar. In 'Grain Brain', Dr David Perlmutter MD, the neurologist, says that he shows slides to doctors and gets them to guess which has the highest GI - a Snickers bar, a slice of whole-wheat bread, a banana or a tablespoon of white table (granulated) sugar and they always get it wrong, because it's the bread.On the back of 'Wheat Belly' by Dr William Davis MD, there's a photo of two slices of brown bread, with the startling message that they can raise blood glucose more than 2 tablespoons of sugar.Generally, bread doesn't taste sweet, until we toast it, because toasting it caramelizes the sugars. They didn't appear out of thin air though,  they were always lurking in the bread. My husband has NCGS so I read that kind of book and don't keep anything with gluten in the house.</blockquote>

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