Many people struggle on the LCHF diet when it comes to cutting bread out of their diet. It is also difficult if you want your children to follow a LCHF diet, particularly when it comes to what you can pack in their lunch boxes for school.

Today’s question on the Ask Prof Noakes Podcast was submitted by Julia and she says that her family has recently taken to the LCHF diet or Banting lifestyle.  She is finding that her older children ( a 6year old girl and 12 year old boy) are struggling with the new LCHF diet bread and are struggling to let go “traditional†bread.

Is there anything you can suggest to help me help them with this transition?

Prof Time Noakes: I think it is really important to cut the wheat, because I think wheat will be shown to be one of the more damaging foods that we eat. And it is so prevalent particularly when you’re eating 5 or 6 slices of bread a day (as I used to), that’s a huge wheat load.
It is the gluten in bread that is so dangerous
For those of us that cannot metabolise it, and I think that’s a good proportion of the population, it’s not healthy. You see the problem why we are addicted to bread with wheat is because they rise because there is gluten present. Of course it also soaks up the butter, and everything you put on the bread so up nicely and that makes it so delicious.

That is the problem though. The very gluten that makes it so attractive as a food, is what is killing us or what is harming our health. As soon as you take gluten out of your diet you are just never going to get the same type of bread.

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