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The cancer-preventing pizza: Italian scientists use Mediterranean vegetables
www.dailymail.co.uk ^ | Published: 05:42 EDT, 4 June 2018 | Updated: 09:52 EDT, 4 June 2018 | By Sam Blanchard

Posted on 06/04/2018 9:54:42 AM PDT by Red Badger

Scientists and chefs in Italy say they have made a pizza which prevents cancer and heart disease.

The Pizza Pascalina, designed by scientists in Naples, has been called 'the pizza that extends life' and an 'anti-tumour' pizza.

The Pascalina is packed with ingredients from the Mediterranean diet which are known to have health benefits.

Neither cheese nor meat feature on the dish; its toppings include tomatoes, olives and rapini – a type of broccoli.

It will be on sale at the Napoli Pizza Village, a pizza festival in Naples this week.

Scientists from the Istituto Nazionale Tumori in Naples – the national cancer institute – say the pizza is healthy enough to eat twice a week.

A group of researchers, restaurateurs, food producers and consumers came together the invent the pizza, according to Italian news site Affar Italiani.

Pizza can be healthy

They hope to encourage people to eat well – and show that even pizza can healthy – the site reports.

The pizza has a wheat flour base and is topped with cherry tomatoes, rapini, olives and extra virgin olive oil, garlic and chilli.

The Pascalina does not include cheese or meat, both of which are popular toppings but are also fatty and can contribute to heart disease.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Agriculture; Food; Gardening; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cancer; disease; heart; pizza
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To: Mozzafiato

What do Italians put on pizza? Real question.


21 posted on 06/04/2018 10:37:46 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: Red Badger

This is good, however this pizza is known to the state of California to cause cancer.


22 posted on 06/04/2018 10:37:52 AM PDT by Angels27
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To: Angels27

Is anything, ANYTHING AT ALL, not “known to the State of California to cause cancer”?


23 posted on 06/04/2018 10:39:49 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Maybe you don't really like pizza. Crust and sauce are the only essential ingredients, though there are sauceless cheese and crust (white clam pie) variants.

In Philly you can get "tomato pie" which is basically a thick crust square (a.k.a. Sicilian style) pizza without the cheese. It's tasty. The picture below shows it with grated cheese on it, that's not typical in my experience.


24 posted on 06/04/2018 10:40:51 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: Red Badger

And a beer with that.


25 posted on 06/04/2018 10:43:12 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Red Badger

And a beer with that.


26 posted on 06/04/2018 10:43:19 AM PDT by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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To: Red Badger

This is silly. Pizza is not inherently unhealthy made with fresh ingredients (and Italian wheat is not bastardized like our crap).

Meat or cheese also is not unhealthy. If you are in good shape, have your pizza as your meal and enjoy.

If it’s within your body’s requirements for both calories and carbs, there is nothing wrong with healthy pizza. And ANY HEALTHY CLEAN DIET automatically prevents cancer, or does as best it can to do so (which it might fail at if you work with asbestos, smoke crack, have a ton of impersonal anal sex, etc).


27 posted on 06/04/2018 10:45:31 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: bk1000

Funny you should say that. I always want cheese on my pizza, I love cheese (not the stinky kinds though). But the first time I went to Rome, and was eating in a famous pizzeria with family, I did not even realize until it was half gone that my pizza had absolutely no cheese on it. It was sensational.


28 posted on 06/04/2018 10:47:03 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

I eat whatever I want most of the time.....................When my wife’s not watching.......................


29 posted on 06/04/2018 10:47:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: neverevergiveup

Perfect meal, perfect setting :-)


30 posted on 06/04/2018 10:50:10 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: circlecity

Dr. Thomas Seyfreid talks about weakening cancer cells by fasting and a low carb high fat diet. It’s an hour long interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoDDZnfYonw&t=0m1s


31 posted on 06/04/2018 10:54:01 AM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: pepsi_junkie
If you are in the apizza capital of New Haven CT, and go to the best places (Sally's Apizza and Modern Apizza) and order a plain pizza, you will get a thin (but NON-CARDOARDY) crust (roundish at Modern, more oval at Sally's), sauce and parmesan. Cheese is a topping.

Sally's:

Modern:

32 posted on 06/04/2018 10:57:41 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: Yaelle

I went to Roma when I was 17 and was disappointed and disgusted by the pizza there — not to mention left hungry. My operational definition of pizza was formed on the west coast (of the U.S.) and not in Italy or foreign places like New York City or Philadelphia. My tastes haven’t evolved to this day and cheese remains one of the only two necessary ingredients of (real) pizza.


33 posted on 06/04/2018 10:57:53 AM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: JohnnyP

It’s the carbs that are unhealthy.


You are correct. But if the carbs in the pizza fit with your carb needs that day or so, you can enjoy it. And the wheat in Italy is not gmo or adulterated like here so you are less likely to have your gut biome react to it.

People are finding out that their “gluten sensitivity” in the USA is a sensitivity to our really unhealthy wheat. Not to gluten.


34 posted on 06/04/2018 10:57:53 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: steve86

I also went to Europe kind of young but I was one of those who took on a lot of their sensibilities like a sponge. I even got used to eating pizza with anchovies on them in the south of France. Every pizza had an anchovy. And yeah, you had to put your top on to walk from the beach to the pizza stand. I found that funny. Why, 12 meters over there, could I be topless, and at this pizza stand I’d better have a shirt on?? I never did understand that one.


35 posted on 06/04/2018 11:02:10 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: JohnnyP

I can certainly believe this. In terms of fitness and bodyfat a low carb low sugar diet is definitely the way to go. Been there, done that, got the 6 pack to show for it.


36 posted on 06/04/2018 11:05:27 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: Red Badger

;)

Another reason to be glad I’m single?


37 posted on 06/04/2018 11:07:21 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle

Enjoy while you still can..............................8^)


38 posted on 06/04/2018 11:11:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: Red Badger

its the CRUST that will kill you...not the little bit of meat or cheese on the pizza....btw, called “hot pie” from my home area...you’d go out and order “hot pie”...


39 posted on 06/04/2018 11:29:58 AM PDT by cherry
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To: elcid1970
What do Italians put on pizza? Real question.

There are several acceptable items: Basil, rapini, anchovies, mozzarella, sausage, artichokes, capers, small artichokes, eggplant, prosciutto, things of that sort. Never pineapple, other fruits, or the strange things you find on American pizza!

40 posted on 06/04/2018 11:59:58 AM PDT by Mozzafiato
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