Study: Pasta Linked to Depression in Women

Orlando Sentinel ^ | November 4, 2013 | Adrienne Cutaway

[ToastedHead]

“They look at you funny if you eat it with your hands.”

The reason being it is next to impossible to speak with anything in your hands.

[needmorePaine]

The reason being it is next to impossible to speak with anything in your hands.
Ha. True enough. It was funny watching a woman on the train wildly gesticulating during a phone conversation. It sounded like she was in an epic argument, but then she ended the call with "Ciao Ciao Ciao" and then about 10 air kisses.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Its most likely the other way around...women eat pasta BECAUSE they are depressed..why do you think they call pasta a “comfort”food.

[ToastedHead]

Try paying a toll while discussing which Grandmother gets Christmas. She’s lucky she can conduct the family business during her commute.

[lafarge]

Cause or effect?

[ViLaLuz]

A no pasta diet would be depressing in itself.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Eating large amounts of ice cream directly from the carton late at night causes depression and bouts of crying.

Both immediately, and again after the weight gain.

[MeshugeMikey]

harvard was once a fine educational institution...those day have clearly passed...

these days...it graduates a lot of dopes who navigate life about as well as barack...the RED BARON Obama...

[bgill]

Enough wine and coffee and you won’t know if you’re depressed.

[bgill]

Red meat doesn’t fit into the equation.

[trisham]

It’s nature’s way.

[Tax-chick]

They left out chocolate. I question their scientific credentials.

Good point.

[MeshugeMikey]

it certainly does not

apparently the “green” movement....is a lot stronger at harvard than could previously been IMAGINED!

all this going on while we have a GMO.....genetically modified obama in the Whitehouse....

[ottbmare]

Its most likely the other way around...women eat pasta BECAUSE they are depressed..why do you think they call pasta a “comfort”food.

It's both. A lot of people get almost addicted to the sugar rush of eating carbohydrates. They get a little down at the end of the month, eat pasta and potato chips and pie, and all those worthless carbs make their mood plummet after a few hours. Doesn't help that all that stuff makes them retain water and gain fat, either.

[Boogieman]

Or... depressed women just tend to eat more pasta. Certainly seems true for chocolate and ice cream.

[JoeFromSidney]

The crust is almost papery thin and the sauce is light and fresh.

Sounds like the stuff I used to eat in Turkey. They had a different name for it, of course, but that was what I had almost every day for lunch at the restaurant across the street from the campus. The first time I saw it, my reaction was, this must be Turkish pizza. Very tasty.