Amazing but true cautionary statistics!
Research on bread indicates that:
- More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
- Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
- In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.
And there’s more. The author has some intriguing suggestions on what to do about this menacing substance (foisted on us by the Big Food Companies), and I’m sure the more progressive politicians will pick up on this and get some Congressional action as soon as possible.
Next up — the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide!
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