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You can beat on Wonder Bread all you want.
你可以在奇妙面包店里找到所有你想要的面包。
But it just keeps bouncing back.
但它只是弹回原来的状态。
Because despite its nutritional bad reputation, white bread appears to boost the growth of good gut bacteria.
尽管它所含的营养物质并不出众，但白面包看起来却能够促进肠道益生菌生长。
That's according to a paper in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
这是根据《农业和食品化学》杂志上的一篇文章得出的结论。
In recent years, white bread has been shunned as a glutenous slab that lacks the health benefits of whole wheat.
近年来，白面包被排除在麦麸名单之外就是因为它缺乏全卖食品中对健康有益的物质。
But this new study suggests there's more to the story.
但这项最近的研究表示白面包其中大有文章。
The researchers were looking at the effects of foods on the types of microbes that live in our intestines.
研究人员们正在观察食物对于我们肠道中不同种类微生物的影响。
They gathered data on the diets of 38 healthy adults and then analyzed the bacteria present in the subjects' stool samples.
他们收集了38名健康成年人的膳食信息然后分析他们排泄物中出现的细菌种类。
Hey, it's for science.
这是为了科学献身。
Turns out that volunteers who ate white bread had more Lactobacillus, a type of bacteria that wards off digestive disorders.
结果显示摄取白面包的志愿者们含有更多乳酸杆菌，这种菌可以有效地抑制肠道功能紊乱。
Seems the starch and fibers in this sandwich staple are good for these germs.
貌似这块三明治中的淀粉和纤维有益于这种细菌。
But before you make your lunch, another recent study showed that eating white bread is associated with obesity.
但在吃午饭之前，最近又有一项研究表明吃白面包和肥胖症有关。
So you should take all these findings with a pinch of salt.
所以，你还是不要太过较真于这些结论。
But not too much salt—especially if you have high blood pressure.
但要少摄取盐分—特别是如果你有高血压的话。
