Nutrition

Welcome to the Flour Advisory Bureau's nutrition and health pages. A one-stop shop for everything you ever needed to know about the nutritional and health benefits of bread and flour. The site provides information on how bread can form part of a healthy diet and also how it can keep your weight under control.
 
Check out the  Nutritional Profiler - an interactive game that provides a guideline to eating the correct proportions of carbohydrate, protein and fat - important for good health. By selecting your intake of protein, carbohydrate, fat and fruit / vegetables from a series of tables the profiler will tell you whether you are eating the right amount of carbohydrate, protein and fat. If you are eating an unbalanced diet there are plenty of top tips to help you achieve optimum health.
 
Find out why bread provides almost 20% of our calcium intake, can help to prevent anaemia in teenage girls and why pregnant mothers should be eating bread to prevent neural tube defects in babies. Surprised? Bread is after all a low fat food packed with vitamins and minerals including calcium, iron, folic acid and B-vitamins.
Learn how carbohydrate rich foods, like bread, need to form the basis of the diet and can help protect against obesity and developing diseases such as heart disease and cancer in later life.
Find out the difference between an allergy and intolerance and why you should never eliminate a food group until you have visited a GP.
Learn the facts about the glycaemic index and the importance of a well-balanced diet.
Check out the Vitality Eating System and learn about successful proven strategies for weight control. Remember faddy diets don't work and there are no miracle cures with quick fix diets. Its about following a healthy balanced diet, reducing your fat intake, increasing consumption of complex carbohydrate rich foods, like bread, pasta, cereals, rice and potatoes and increasing your levels of activity and exercise, Simple really!
 
If there is anything you are not sure about or would like some additional information don't forget to try the Grain Information Service website www.graininformationservice.co.uk or give us a call on 020 7493 2521.