They reduced the amount of sugar they were eating, swapped white bread for whole grain and started planning high-protein meals with lots of vegetables.

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Whole grain bread and wheat pasta are on the menu.

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In recent years HMSHost has made several changes to their menus, including adding a variety of new salads, offering hummus plates as an appetizer and providing whole-grain bread for sandwiches.

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Catherine, in Minneapolis, says that cereal may be a better source of whole grain than bread and other foods because of how it tends to be served.

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Mackey succeeds precisely because he does not live by organic seven-grain sprouted-wheat bread alone.

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Since 1 calorie of beef requires 8 times as much input of grain as a single calorie of bread, Petrela recognizes that rising protein consumption means a rising demand for grains which in turn means a rising demand for global farmland.

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As for cross-breeding, Mother Nature had done it first, cross-pollinating different wild grasses until they produced a grain that could eventually expand into modern bread.

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