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11 THINGS THAT PROGRAMME THE BRAIN TO STORE FAT

1 Are our minds being manipulated by toast?

hite toast is on breakfast plates every morning, but unlike healthier wholemeal bread, it has a high glycaemic index, meaning it causes blood sugar to shoot up. The brain thinks it has lots of energy and orders a large portion of it to be stored as fat. But the rapid rise of blood sugar is followed by a rapid

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