A study funded by National Pasta Association shows that pasta eaters are healthier than non-pasta eaters. I don’t think this is credible and it’s just another “carbs are good, fat is bad” article 
Let us Bash it. 
Pasta lovers are healthier and eat less fat, study says
Glenn_Graham
(Glenn Graham)
#1
richard
(Richard Morris)
#4
Do I really need to look into the study to see who funded that “science”
The research, entitled “Pasta consumption is associated with greater intake of 2015 Dietary Guidelines’ shortfall nutrients, a better diet quality and lower added sugar in American adults: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2001-2012” was conducted by Nutritional Strategies, Inc. on behalf of the National Pasta Association.
OK who is this Nutritional Strategies Inc.
Well I see one of their VPs is on LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yanni-papanikolaou-ba058b43
Director, Nutrition Marketing, Morning Foods, Kellogg Company
Ah right. Nutritional Strategies Inc are apparently a lobby group.
Turns out this is not a study, it’s a presentation to Obesity week by a Yanni Papanikolaou
http://2016.obesityweek.com/session/tos-poster-presentations-iii/
Drilling into online details it looks like his finding is that people who eat pasta get more nutrients from a list of what are called “short fall nutrients”, it doesn’t look at any health outcomes.
My take: Of course they get more nutrients THEY ARE EATING MORE. And I’m not surprised they didn’t want to look at any health outcomes, Hypertension, Glycemia, BMI, Central obesity - I’ll bet that data is NOT in his findings.
ILoveBacon
(Megan)
#5
They quote Sophia Loren in that article but in another interview she states that bread and stress will make you fat. I’m guessing pasta was included but she’s probably not allowed to say that since she’s Italian. It also sounds like she might be an intermittent faster.
Aqua_chonk
(Stickin' with mammoth)
#6
I say every time we see a questionable study, we let Richard sniff around it for a second and then let go of the leash.
Kill!
Donna
(Meeping up the Science!)
#7
What’s further hilarious @Richard is that Obesity Week is for bariatric surgery. And all bariatric surgery plans… eliminate pasta nearly completely. Even the SAD bariatric nutritionists mostly have you avoid pasta permanently.
Fiorella
#11
Believe me…every italian woman (in Italy) knows pasta is fattening.
Pasta, bread, polenta, gnocchi, rice…this is food that the peasants can afford. It’s cheap filler.
Mike_W_Ellwood
(Michael Wallace Ellwood)
#12
Check out the great interviews with Vinnie Tortorich:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEwxhSzCu6w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td4yRt5GoNc&t=8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnfwfJqaB6M
He’s a very entertaining guy, so worth watching in any case, but at one point he says: “I’m from an Italian American family. Yes, we have pasta, but just a little bit on the side of the plate, along with meat, or fish, salad…etc”. (Not the exact words, but in that general vein).
brownfat
(Todd Allen)
#13
The research makes the claim that pasta eaters “have greater adherence to the U.S. 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines”. This isn’t that far fetched when the dietary guidelines push a high carb grain heavy diet. Where this fails is when interpreted as pasta eaters are healthier. It wasn’t a study of health but of dietary composition. I think we are still waiting for evidence that following US dietary guidelines makes anyone healthier. And we will keep waiting and waiting while ignoring the growing diabesity epidemic.