text: Agreed.  It's not bread made the traditional way that's the big problem, it's industrialized bread that's the villain.
  
  The thing I would add to this column is it that the chemicals added to industrialized bread also cause digestive and metabolic problems and make people sick -- whether in bread or in other foods.   I figured out there was something wrong here in North America when I lived abroad for a period of time and ate REAL bread (sourdough rye) without any issues at all.   I was also slowly losing weight without trying while eating it and didn't feel "addicted" to the bread.    I returned to Canada, and all the old issues came back when I wasn't able to check the ingredients of the bread carefully.
  
  Do yourself a favour and buy bread from places that use traditional techniques for milling, sourdough yeast and very simple recipes.