One day I noticed that after having pasta for dinner I do not feel depleted of energy several hours later into the morning. So I started to focus on eating pasta for dinner. Then I replaced the bread I eat in the morning beside the eggs with pasta and eggs. That all was probably okay until I started to mix pasta flour directly with eggs for breakfast. Then I started to make my bread with high percentage of pasta flour. Couple of weeks or less within this diet change and things started to feel going negatively health wise. I do not feel as hungry but I also cannot do things like before. I do not feel the energy of the food. Before, I used to have a very noticeable increase in the weight that I can lift with a little increase in body weight. On the other hand, while in that arrangement I had my body weight increasing outside my fluctuating range to a level I have never seen for a long time while my weight lifting capability was decreasing. It was as if that process of getting energy from food, we take for granted, has severely diminished inside my body. Did not take me very long to go back to my usual diet and appreciate the energy I get after eating there. Tried making a half and half white and whole wheat flour but did not feel good enough for me which may be because I was still affected by that earlier diet but I still did not try it again, at least not yet.
I know that what I did with the pasta flour was crazy and durum flour cannot be consumed like that. But what I went through still made me wonder about all the criticism of related modernization. We always hear about how whole flour is good because of its fiber. But fiber seems to be a double edge sword and we may not think about how it could have negatively affected the amount of energy people at old times were able to get from their food.
Maybe it is the kind of fiber and or that I would not have gone through that trouble if things were made by the professionals in the field not my self. But I still feel suspicious about what we could be in without this modernization, enough to shout Long Live White Flour!
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