Posted on 07/06/2016 2:50:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai
If you’ve banished pasta from your kitchen cupboard in the hope of squeezing into last year’s Speedos or bikini before your summer holidays, you’re making a terrible mistake.
An Italian study, published in the journal “Nutrition and Diabetes” this month, reveals for the first time a link between how much pasta you eat and how slim you are likely to be. […]
“Our findings show a negative association of pasta consumption with general and central obesity,” the authors wrote. In short: the more you eat pasta, the less you are likely to be overweight. …
(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.it ...
Pardon the pun, but would that study not be “self serving”?
Nonsense. The quantity matters.
Like all those “studies” this one is worth nothing.
The more you learn about cholesterol the less there is to worry about. (With the mandatory for most people qualifier)
Here’s a great book pdf.
http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol/
Being a 61 year-old of Italian descent I have to “weigh in” (sorry!). In a word: hogwash. Wheat = poison for a variety of reasons: gluten, glycemic load. It acts on your brain just like heroin. I lost 75 lbs. over the course of about a year and a half, and have been able to maintain that by only eating things like pasta on 1 cheat day per week. It works well psychologically, since I don’t have to give it up totally, and one high carb day per week supposedly is good for the metabolism. The minimum daily allowance of 300g of carbohydrate per day is absurd, and a ticket to an early grave.
My husband just commented on the muscle definition in my arms-I even have my triceps back. I told him it’s all from pasta...carrying the heavy pasta bowls as a waitress in an Italian restaurant has helped me get back in shape.
I rarely eat it, though.
I've added some pasta to my diet. It's 100% whole wheat pasta, a measured serving, about once a week. I'm fine with that if I eat around it....no more than two whole grain servings a day.
...or the cannoli.
I have an attachment for my stand mixer and do the same. One trick to try if you haven't. Once you spiralize your squash, place it in a colander and shake 3-4 teaspoons of kosher salt over it and mix it in. Let rest for 30 minutes and rinse thoroughly. The salt will draw a lot of the water out of the squash and make a heartier "pasta." Makes a great raw "zoodle" salad. Just add tomatoes, onions, olives, feta, vinegar and olive oil.
Everything in life is better no-carb.
Did the study include buttered bread sticks with Parmesan cheese sprinkled on it?
Agreed. It’s not the pasta, it’s the sauce they slather on it.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/11/16/church-flying-spaghetti-monster-massachusetts-religion/75862946/
Pastafarians everywhere are pleased at the study.
Exactly.
Also, Pasta is not meant to be a heavy dish, but we Americans cook our pasta way too long and let it soak up all that water, so it becomes very heavy and filling.
I have basically cut carbs out for the last month to 6 weeks and I have dropped 17 lbs. with no other changes in my routine. Beef chicken fish...use cauliflower for mashed potatoes, etc.
No pizza, no pasta, no rice except brown, no potatoes, except sweet potatoes.
Feel better, no inflammation, BP down.
And it makes zero difference.
Carbs have zero essential dietary component and your 100% whole organic wheat still drives an insulin response.
Reminds me of a report from a major university several years ago touting the benefits of broccoli.
A few months later, I saw another report from the agri department at that major university touting how their production of crops on school acreage benefits the university. Guess what their major crop is.
The Sharpton diet... LOVE it!!!
Yep, avoiding white rice, white flour in anything and white sugar seems to be as close to a useful generalization regarding diet as anything I’ve yet seen.
With a carefully balanced and low calorie (1100-1200 calories a day), lots of walking, I do just fine. I think a lot of it depends on ones hereditary make up.
Sadly that study is flawed and too many carbs will add weight. I love the pasta once a week. Every other night meat and veggies.
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