People who don’t eat pasta out of fear of carbs are missing out on life.
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True. I don't see anything wrong with eating a small amount of spaghetti from time to time.
There’s a reason old Italian nonni last way into their 90s on a diet of pasta, olive oil, and wine!
Anything in moderation is fine....ok...maybe not anything
People who eat pasta are missing out on steak.
If you’re eating pasta, you’re likely also eating everything else.
Carnivores, however…
Have you tried heroin? Tastes good, too 😄
Your stomach has a limited volume. If you eat something that isn't a steak you must eat less steak.
I just don’t find the nutritional content of refined pasta (the most popular by far) worth it. I eat it sporadically, a decision based on careful analysis and comparison of other foods and not instinctively due to fear. There’s just far better choices out there if one cares to look.
I don’t obsess over nutritional content. I only focus on quality food. For instance, I don’t usually eat pasta in the US because of glyphosates. In Italy, I eat it whenever I feel like it.
It’s been around for 700 years and Italians life a healthier and longer life than most industrialized counties. Works for me!
How do you measure quality?
Checkmate?
I’m not a doctor and definitely not an expert. This is just based on my own research and experience.⚠️
So, the leading cause of death in Italy is Ischaemic heart disease. The risk factors include (not limited to) high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, obesity, which are typical after living a life with chronic insulin resistance. Insulin resistance mode is a consequence of eating a high carb diet.
Everyone (inc. italians) would likely live longer if they tuned down carbs a bit (and specially refined carbs).
Should you eat carbs? Absolutely.
Should you eat refined carbs? Only if nothing else is available 🤣
Should carbs be the bulk of your meals? Probably no.
With the rise of processed foods (on top of many other issues, like pesticides, polluted water, etc) around the world, heart disease has become the leading cause of death all over the West.
One can enjoy both meat AND pasta and not die.
Beef maxis just got triggered by my OP and assumed I meant “eat pasta at every meal, every day, it’s great!” lol
I’m not a beef maxi, nor triggered, nor did I say you meant what you quoted there. This is far from personal which is how you seem to construe it. 🤷♂️
I was just providing my own perspective but looks like you were just interest in shaming people who don’t eat carbs like you do so I’ll let you continue doing that.
🫡 Happy Friday
Heart surgeon Dr. Philip Ovadia says that 50% of people with heart attack don't have high cholesterol. A recent LMHR study scientifically proves that high cholesterol doesn't cause plaque in LMHR people. (Might or might not apply to all people.)
So cholesterol is a useless predictor. However I do think the remaining risk factors you mentioned are valid.
"Should you eat carbs?" - there's plenty of people living without carbs just fine. So you don't have to eat carbs.
Is eating a bit of carbs every few months going to cause you long-term problems? If you're not a carb addict then most likely no. Where's the line? Noone knows, each person needs to figure it out for themselves. Just good to be aware of that there's no known health benefit from eating carbs.
Look at the ingredients and where they come from.
Examples:
With pasta, I make sure it comes from Italy to avoid glyphosates.
With beef, I always choose grass-fed and grass-finished.
With olive oil, I make sure it’s EVOO, Italian, organic, and from a local farm.
So if an ingredient comes from Italy it's automatically high-quality? And how does that quality manifest? What effects does quality cause?
I don’t eat a lot of pasta
But if you are in the US you want to look for the ivory colored pasta imported from Italy
Avoid yellow colored pasta
Don’t get confused by whole wheat and egg pasta
80 grams
I always look for imported pasta.
There’s a reason many Italians travel with packages of pasta and bottles of tomato sauce! 😂
Gluten free bread and pasta 🤤
People who don't eat lead out of fear of poisoning are missing out on life as well.