Joyce, OK. I bought a dang bagel for ya, but I didn't eat it! Please excuse the following rant.
I have a problem with organizations selling garbage food to supposedly "help" a cause. Selling Ice Cream to help the American Heart Association, selling candy (of all things!) to help the American Diabetes Association, and selling carbo junk grains to help ANYthing related to Breast cancer.
The problem is complex. By selling garbage, man-made, invented, processed, edible, non-food product to help a cause is a double-edged sword. Encouraging people to eat that non-food with the false pretense that some of the money will be donated to "research" is like saying "go ahead and eat the very same stuff that is implicated in causing the disease in the first place- but don't worry, we're donating some money for ya!". There is plenty of scientific evidence out there that implicate grains (primarily milled grains) as a primary source of the diseases of civilization (Heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, cancer) that it is highly unlikely that these suspect ingredients in so-called "food" products will ever be exonerated.
Follow the money.
Was the bagel at least a "low glycemic" bagel?
