Carb lovers and parmesan cheese aficionados, rejoice: good news has come to you from Italy.
Having spent years being dissed as a weight watcher’s nightmare, new scientific research suggests pasta is not fattening after all.
In a study published in the Nutrition and Diabetes journal earlier this week, researchers from the Institute of Research, Hospitalisation and Health Care Neuromed in Pozzilli, Italy, found those who ate pasta not only had a lower body mass index (BMI), but also a smaller waist-to-hip ratio than those of non-pasta eaters.
Watch: Gough Whitlam understood the power of the pasta. (Post continues after video.)
The findings came from analysing the diets of more that 23,000 Italians and assessing what participants ate and drank during 24 hours periods.
The time and places they ate, the portion sizes of meals, and any diets being undertaken at the time were also taken into account.
Amazingly, the study found pasta consumption to be linked to slimmer bodies and lower weights overall, with researchers saying the findings disprove the misconceived link between pasta and obesity. (Post continues after gallery.)
Pasta in all of its beauty.
“Pasta is often considered not adequate when you want to lose weight. And some people completely ban it from their meals. In light of this research, we can say that this is not a correct attitude,” head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology at the Neuromed institute, Licia Lacoviello says.
On that note, time to download the uberEATS app and get this carb party started.
What’s your pasta of choice?
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Top Comments
When they say pasta, they just mean the pasta and not the stuff you put on it, right? 'Coz if you're covering it in cheese sauce and bacon (mmmmm, bacon), it's probably not going to help you lose weight.
Now I want cheesy pasta for tea.
Yep, going to my fave restaurant tonight and getting their beef ragout pappardelle now. Delish!
I made macaroni cheese. With bacon (and pineapple). It was fabulous.