An Italian study and a US study say it
Good news for lovers of butter paste. Two distinct researches assimilate these foods so much loved by the Italians.
Who has banned pasta and butter thinking that making it fat may rethink this food choice: according to an Italian study conducted at the Episcopiology Department of the IRCCS Neuromed di Pozzilli (Isernia) who consumes on average 50 grams of pasta with butter or anyway an amount equivalent to 10% of total daily calories tends to be more "lean" than those who restrict consumption.
Pasta and butter are in fact a source of moderate "glycemic index" (complex sugars) carbohydrates.
By glycemic index is meant the rate at which the food is transformed into simple sugar (glucose) from the body.
The lower the speed, the more healthy the food is.
Suffice it to think that if we take a sugary drink or a packed snack rich in sugars, then with a high glycemic index we undergo a glycemic peak (ie the amount of sugar in the blood suddenly changes). Pasta, on the other hand, has a moderate index, even lower in rice, bread, and potatoes.
In the case of butter, accused for years of being a cause of cardiovascular disease and for this reason eliminated from any diet, according to research conducted by Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policydella Tufts University (Usa) over 635,000 people and published in Plos magazine One, this food not only does not fatty, but even prevents diabetes. All due to the excessive amount of milk fat present during the processing.
Guilty of causing cardiovascular disease is therefore not the butter, but the lifestyle of those who take this food.
We are moving away from the rigid and intransigent positions that forced severe diet consumers and strongly penalizing and therefore counterproductive. As in all things the difference makes it the quantity. A healthy lifestyle that eliminates excess is the right answer.