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.
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.
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What do Italians put on pizza? Real question.
This is good, however this pizza is known to the state of California to cause cancer.
Is anything, ANYTHING AT ALL, not “known to the State of California to cause cancer”?
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.
And a beer with that.
And a beer with that.
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).
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.
I eat whatever I want most of the time.....................When my wife’s not watching.......................
Perfect meal, perfect setting :-)
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
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.
It’s the carbs that are unhealthy.
People are finding out that their “gluten sensitivity” in the USA is a sensitivity to our really unhealthy wheat. Not to gluten.
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.
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.
;)
Another reason to be glad I’m single?
Enjoy while you still can..............................8^)
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”...
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!
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