Stop Hating on Pasta – It Actually Has a Healthy Ratio of Carbs, Protein and Fat

Stop Hating on Pasta – It Actually Has a Healthy Ratio of Carbs, Protein and Fat
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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?

Emma Beckett
Emma Beckett
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Emma Beckett is a senior lecturer on food science and human nutrition at the School of Environmental and Life Sciences at the University of Newcastle.
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