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"New year, new you, new diet. It’s a familiar refrain. One popular dieting
technique is to create a food blacklist. Quitting “carbs” or packaged foods is
common, which can mean avoiding supermarket staples like pasta.
But do we really need to ban pasta to improve our diets?
This is what we call a reductionist approach to nutrition, where we describe a
food based on just one of its key components. Pasta isn’t just carbohydrates.
One cup (about 145 grams) of cooked pasta has about 38g of carbohydrates, 7.7g
of protein and 0.6g of fats. Plus, there’s all the water that is absorbed from
cooking and lots of vitamins and minerals.
“But pasta is mostly carbs!” I hear you cry. This is true, but it’s not the
whole story. We need to think about context."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
