Hunza
Bread
by Tanya Zilberter,
PhD
Just
one or two small pieces of bread would ruin a person's appetite for 5
or
6 hours. Is this a low-carb recipe?
Exerpts
"Like
so many great discoveries in medicine, This "miracle"
bread was discovered "almost by accident". Aleen Colvin, wife of a
Swedish
health researcher, was trying to modify a 2,000-year-old, high roughage
bread
recipe used by the little known people of Hunza, who were being studied
by
her husband."
"The Hunzas are widely known to be the
healthiest people
on earth. Their bread is the main part of their diet. Aleen was trying
to
make this bread even better tasting so that her children would eat it
and
benefit healthwise. She succeeded in coming up with a recipe that was
absolutely
delicious. Everybody loved it. But, then a startling discovery was
made.
Just one or two small pieces of bread would ruin a person's appetite
for
5 or 6 hours!"
Now, is this a
low-carb recipe?
Let's see. I
would violate HunzaMiracle.net copyright
giving out the entire recipe set but I can give you the figures I found
myself
for the basic recipe ingredients.
To calculate
carb grams for serving:
1. Subtract
Fiber grams from Carb grams for any two of
the flowers - you receive two Net gram numbers
2. Add these two Net gram numbers for entire recipe.
3. Divide the result by 20 (the number of flat breads in the recipe)
Nutrients in
Kunza Bread
| Nutrients in Kunza Bread made with 2
cups of combination
of flours listed here --> |
SUNFLOWER SEEDS |
OAT BRAN |
BUCKWHEAT FLOUR |
MILLET FLOUR |
TRITICALE FLOUR |
WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR |
|
1 cup |
1 cup |
1 cups |
1 cup |
1 cups |
1 cups |
| Calories |
820.8 |
228.78 |
402 |
756 |
439.4 |
406.5 |
| Protein (g) |
32.83 |
16.09 |
15.12 |
22 |
17.16 |
16.44 |
| Fat (g) |
71.42 |
6.51 |
3.72 |
8.4 |
2.34 |
2.28 |
| Carb (g) |
27.07 |
61.57 |
84.72 |
145.8 |
95.03 |
87.12 |
| Fiber (g) |
15.12 |
14.32 |
12 |
17 |
18.98 |
14.64 |
| Saturated Fat (g) |
7.49 |
1.24 |
0.81 |
1.44 |
0.42 |
0.38 |
| Monounsaturated Fat (g) |
13.62 |
2.21 |
1.14 |
1.54 |
0.23 |
0.27 |
| Polyunsaturated Fat (g) |
47.15 |
2.58 |
1.14 |
4.26 |
1.02 |
0.93 |
As you can see,
it can be considered a low carb bread,
naturally low carb. It allows experimentation and can be further
de-carbed.
The weight loss program based on this bread and its modifications
reminded
me the Fat Fast method (click here). Together, this does makes sense
to me and
I am going to try and write here what happens.
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