The Sourdough School

BALM – Proven as one of the healthiest approaches to bread in the world.

Based in the walled gardens of Dr. Vanessa Kimbell's beautiful Victorian home in rural Northamptonshire, UK, we tutor individuals and train bakers and healthcare professionals in Baking as Lifestyle Medicine (BALM). Personalising bread to your lifestyle, gut microbiome, and unique genetics for optimal health—tailoring fermentation, fibre, and diversity so that your daily bread becomes the foundation of your health.

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Studies and Discussion on Bread as an Ultra Processed Foods

Following the Lecture of Dietary Patterns, Cardio Vascular Disease & Mortality in the UK we ask that you engage with the research provided or the link in the database or if you feel that there are better more relevant studies then please feel free to look for studies and submit ones that you feel are most relevant to the topic. Please fill in the facts, or specifics of studies that you feel are most relevant to this topic. It is sometimes easier to copy sections of the study but we like to think of these are bite size – like a tweet

The first or relevant information we’d like to you link directly to the ingredient, the remaining 4 fields are open to give you more scope to share.

You may also include relevant features or articles, podcasts as well as studies.

We do require that you share some relevant information from one of the studies discussed in this module.

You do not need to fill in all 5 fields, but we feel that this is the number that we feel gets the most engagement. You can also submit your facts or, observations from the same research paper. It does not have to be the same paper, you can choose different studies

Homework
Please tell us where you found the study and how you selected it. *

Maximum file size: 33.55MB

Maximum file size: 33.55MB

Principle No 1 of BALM is that all practices are compliant with the 6 pillars of Lifestyle Medicine. Please tick which of the pillars of LM your study supports
In relation to the lifestyle pillar you selected – does your research paper relate to a specific BALM practice?
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