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You can help yourself grow bigger and stronger eight ways with Wonderbread.

You can beat on Wonderbread all you want.

I mean, you can make a completely credible pillow out of this stuff.

But it just keeps bouncing back. Because despite its nutritional bad reputation,

white bread appears to boost the growth of good gut bacteria.

That's according to a paper in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

In recent years, white bread has been shunned as a glutinous slab

that lacks the health benefits of whole wheat,

but this new study suggests there's more to the

story. The researchers were looking at the effects of foods on the type of microbes that live in our

intestines. They gathered data on the diets of 38 healthy adults. Then they analyzed the bacteria

present in the subject's stool samples. Hey, it's for science. Turns out that volunteers who

ate white bread had more lactobacillus, a type of bacteria that wards off digestive disorders.

Seems the starch and fibers in this sandwich staple are good for these germs.

But before you make your lunch, another recent study shows that eating white bread is associated with obesity.

So you should take all these findings with a pinch of salt,

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