100 weight loss tips - 100.Why You Should Avoid White Pasta

100 weight loss tips - 100.Why You Should Avoid White Pasta

That’s right! White pasta is similar to white bread in that it actually contains almost no nutrients or goodness. It is therefore just plain old filler. Stodge! It fills you up but does nothing for you. Worse still is that because it is just made from refined wheat flour, it contains gluten and starch, sugar and salt.
It bilks you up not with muscle, but with fat! This is not good for you and actually damages your health because you feel full after eating it so you are not likely to add any nutritious foods to provide the essential nutrients your body needs. That’s why white pasta is bad for you.
If you must eat pasta, switch to brown pasta, or unrefined pasta. This is made from wholegrain flour which contains many more of the essential nutrients and dietary fiber that your body needs. It tastes just as good as its white counterpart and once you get used to the slightly different texture, you’ll find you won’t ever want to go back to that sticky, stodgy, pasty white stuff ever again!
Another alternative if you really don’t think you can make the change to brown pasta is a product from Barilla, which is a big pasta company. They market a pasta called “Barilla Plus” which looks, feels and tastes the same as the bad old refined pasta you’re used to, except its made from unrefined wheat flour, so it contains all the goodness of brown pasta.
Top of the pasta league for goodness over convenience is of course organic brown pasta. Yeah, I know it sounds like hippy food and it is exactly that. But just because it conjures up images of long haired, scruffy, 1960s look young men and women, don’t let that fool you into thinking this type of food is only for beatniks.
Organic foods are better for you in a whole lot of ways than the more prevalent, toxic, refined garbage that you’re used to eating. They contain almost no toxic pesticide residue (which is present in most non-organic food nowadays despite what the politicians lie to you about), they are higher in natural vitamins and minerals and they taste better too. Anyhow, that’s getting slightly off topic as this tip is all about ditching the white, refined pasta altogether and replacing it with organic, brown pasta if you have to have the stuff. Which will help you to lose weight as part of a healthy diet.
Weight loss tips number 99 will follow in the next post!

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