And, in similar news, the Chinese Food Institute has discovered that Chinese food keeps you full, is most nourishing and is the best value.
So says a study paid for by Barilla, the pasta manufacturer!
Carbs increase When people eat a food containing carbohydrates, the digestive system breaks down the digestible ones into sugar, which enters the blood.
Blood sugar levels rise.
Powerful spikes in blood sugar – can lead to an increased risk for type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and overweight. There is also preliminary work linking high-glycemic diets to age-related macular degeneration, ovulatory infertility, and colorectal cancer.
I use a low carb diet regularly to keep my weight down and pasta IS NOT included.
Occasionally adding a small amount of pasta probably wouldn't hurt but who wants a tiny serving of pasta. And it's nutritional value is nil compared to beans, veggies or fruits.
As a life long combatant in the battle of the bulge, I’ve come to a simple conclusion. It is processed foods that lead to obesity. (Pasta being such a food.) If you look at the eating plans that work for people, low carb, paleo, vegetarian, nutritarian, ketogenic, etc., none include processed foods. On all these plans, you primarily eat real food; fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs.
At this point, I primarily eat a plant based diet as my battle of the bulge has now become a battle with cholesterol. A battle I am winning on a plant based diet.
Aside, I now have a simple rule. When you cook, your ingredients should not have ingredients, i.e. not processed. If you stick to that, you can pretty much eat what you want.
That has not been my personal experience. Twice I have had to take off 100 pounds. The first time I lost weight was on a low carb diet with no pasta, bread and packaged food. I never went back to packaged food but as soon as pasta and breads were added in, the weight gradually returned.
Now I’ve lost 65 pounds with about 35 left to go and I had to cut the pasta and bread once again. I can eat all the fat I want so long as it comes from meat, olive oil, butter, nuts, and cheese. But I get full rather quickly sticking to those foods, along with green vegetables and berries.
There’s something about pasta and bread that not only puts on weight but makes me more hungry as well. Same with packaged foods which are high in grains and added sugars.
Just don’t overeat. Duh. And get a little exercise. It’s not that hard or complex a concept.
Scientists are always trying to find the ‘correct diet’ for everyone but there is no correct diet for the human race. It’s different for different people, and mostly based on the diet and activities your ancestors used every day.
Historically agrarian societies which move to physically demanding factory work and then to office work will naturally have challenges with weight gain.
Pardon the pun, but would that study not be “self serving”?
Nonsense. The quantity matters.
Like all those “studies” this one is worth nothing.
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.
Everything in life is better no-carb.
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.
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.
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.
Interesting. Just last week my doctor told me to lose weight I must stop eating pasta altogether, along with bread, potatoes and rice. The ‘carbs don’t make you fat” era of nutritional advice has come to an end.
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