One of the best ways to gain weight is to eat “white” carbohydrates. These are carbohydrates made with white flour such as white bread (sometimes dyed brown to give the appearance of wheat bread), rice, cereal, potatoes, pasta, tortillas, and fried foods with breading. But weight gain is not the only reason we should avoid these foods. The chlorine dioxide, one of the chemicals used to bleach flour combines with residual protein in these foods to form alloxan. Researchers use alloxan in lab rats to induce diabetes. That’s right–it’s used to produce diabetes!! Don’t eat “white stuff” unless you want to get fatter and possibly add to the diabetes epidemic.
