Eating flour?

Question

What bad things come from eating flour? What good things? I am kind of a health freak and I like to eat healthy, but i don't know if eating flour is good. What does it have to do with weight gain? Will it make me gain more weight? Does it stay in my body?

Answer 1

It is going to depend somewhat on the nature of the flour. If you are talking about the ultra-white, bleached fiber-free pastry flour it basically forms a wall-paper paste coating your digestive tract so that you do not properly absorbe vitamins and nutrition.

That is why it is always better to use whole-grain flours. The whole-grain contains fiber which helps scrape junk off of your digestive tract.