>
> 2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming
> households score below average on standardized tests.
>
> 3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked
> in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50
> years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many
> women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid,
> yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.
>
> 4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed
> within 24 hours of eating bread.
>
> 5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has
> been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used
> to suffocate a mouse. The average Nigerians eats more bread
> than that in one month!
>
> 6. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to
> "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and
> even cold cuts.
>
> 7. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human
> body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating
> bread could lead to your body being taken over by this
> absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey
> bread-pudding person.
>
> 8. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
>
> 9. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees
> Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than
> one minute.
>
> 10. Most Nigerian bread eaters are utterly unable to
> distinguish between significant scientific fact and
> meaningless statistical babbling.
>
> In light of these frightening statistics, we propose a
> nationwide "Just Say No To Toast" campaign. Will you
> participate?
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