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[M.Helen]

Also for back pain and sciatica are successfully used yeast dough of rye flour.

I wounder if you know what sciatica is. But try with a chiropractor.

Sciatica is pain resulting from irritation of the sciatic nerve. The pain of sciatica is typically felt from the low back to behind the thigh and radiating down below the knee. The sciatic nerve is the largest nerve in the body and begins from nerve roots in the lumbar spinal cord in the low back and extends through the buttock area to send nerve endings down the lower limb. While sciatica is most commonly a result of a disc herniation directly pressing on the nerve, any cause of irritation or inflammation of this nerve can reproduce the symptoms of sciatica. These causes include irritation of the nerve from adjacent bone, tumors, muscle, internal bleeding, infections, injury, and other causes.
see more here http://www.medicinenet.com/sciatica/article.htm

[Troll]

Also for back pain and sciatica are successfully used yeast dough of rye flour.

I wounder if you know what sciatica is. But try with a chiropractor.

...While sciatica is most commonly a result of a disc herniation directly pressing on the nerve...

Which is why I comment 'try a chiropractor'.

[M.Helen]

Advantages: If you prefer your local shop as your bread supplier, then it would be better for you to read the label first, as to select the one that is without too many additives. But the best solution remains the home-made bread. Thus, you are more than sure of the components of the products that are home made, which means in the end you have nice tasty bread on your table in just a few hours and which is almost 100% natural.

[M.Helen]

Disadvantages: Indeed, home-made bread is more healthy, but at the same time more expensive. But money should not matter when it comes to your health. If you can not always prepare fresh bread at home, then you should beware of what you buy in stores. That is because there are many kinds of so-called black bread on the market nowadays. In reality,this bread is made from wheat flour to which a color component is added later especially by means of adding caramel. So there you have it - black bread!!

[M.Helen]

Deciphering food labels language.
* In general, as any other type of food it contains the list of ingredients to be brief. Following the flour, water, yeast, salt is used to extend the duration of the product, to give a more pleasant taste or to maintain a consistent uniform. There are all sorts of studies of food additives that are harmful or dangerous - only if used in large quantities, some have a green light, but only to memorize a list of E numbers or to be always aware with recent studies in the field, it is easier to avoid them altogether.
* Salt (possibly sugar) must be in small quantity (the last place in the list of ingredients), it is ideally for it to be a refined salt that contain trace elements which are beneficial for our body.
* Perfect Flour is not only refined, but organic or ecologic, which means that in the process of cereal cultivation no synthesis of pesticides or chemical fertilizers were used.

[M.Helen]

* Flour must be at least partially full. The more flour is more refined (ie, Snow White), the bread is poor in terms of nutrition, because most vitamins and minerals is in the grain shell (bran) and wheat germ, which are eliminated in refining. Also in this way disappear and fibers, which are essential for normal bowel movements.
Fortified Flour is so weak in terms of nutrient that had to be added vitamins and minerals to increase its value. It's good to avoid, as it is good to eat fruits and vegetables instead of multivitamin pills.
* Flax seeds, pumpkin or sunflower are good for bringing an essential fatty acid intake, lowering harmful cholesterol. True, they and many calories, but I-nance than one slice of bread with cheese, you better buy a roll with seeds or nuts.

[M.Helen]

How to choose a good bread
A bread from wheat flour must have the crispy crust and the interior filled with air bubbles, which means it was left long enough to increase, the core should not be sticky or lax.
For the bread with an important contribution from other grains (rye, barley, oats, rice), the core must be denser.
The taste of bread should be sweet and sour, though it is hard to describe, it is very specific and differ from one bakery to another, even if the same type of loaf. The taste is so great compared with that of the bread factory, that some people organize tasting bread, by the principle of wine, cheese or chocolate.
Bread should be kept in a bread box (wood) or a paper bag. Plastic prevent to breathe and soften them.
A good bread, without preservatives, dry when obsolescent, not mold.

[Lorry]

Maybe it is not so good to eat bread but I think it just need to be eaten not in great amount. if there are people who suffer from fat, they can change bread on potato. It is also very consistent and it is not necessary to eat a lot of potatoes, it will be enough just one.