I make my own bread at home, mostly because I enjoy doing it and partly because I like knowing exactly what's in it. I usually start off with good wholemeal flour and add seeds to it, to lower its GI content. However, I was just web-surfing and found out that linseeds (also known as flaxseeds) have been known to cause problems in animal fetuses and now I feel HORRIBLE. Apparently the lignans in linseeds can mimic oestrogen (apparenly everything can mimic oestrogen if you look hard enough ) and thus be detrimental.
For this reason I have long since given up eating soya products, but I am now wondering what damage has occurred from me eating linseed/flaxseed (it is also in most seeded commercial breads, too). I have been trying to eat well and keep to wholegrain, GI-reasonable foods, all in the hopes of making sure that I have a healthy baby and now this!
Some sites seem to say that small amounts are okay, whilst others say to stay away from them completely. It really does boggle the mind that in this day and age, after women have been having babies for millennia, that they still can't work out which foods are okay and which aren't
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