Does pasta cause weight gain especially in the stomach area?!
Does pasta cause weight gain especially in the stomach area?
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not just stomach ...all areas
Weight gain is systemic. It does not target just one part of the body. Pasta in and of itself will not make you fat. The huge amounts of cheese people top it with is another story.
Pasta is not a fattening food unless it is served with a rich sauce, like Alfredo sauce. That being said, you should serve pasta as a side dish rather than as an entree.
You should have maybe 4-6 oz. of pasta per serving - just enough to complement the main dish. Try serving angel-hair pasta tossed with olive oil, garlic powder and black pepper. You will get a good nutritional value and the toppings are trans-fat-free.
Plus, adding a nice leafy green salad will also enable your body to absorb the benefits of a serving of pasta.
Lots of marathon runners/triathletes eat pasta the night before the race to metabolize the carbs and to get their endorphins going for maximum output. Just FYI.
Pasta can cause some weight gain, I should know I love pasta. A better way is to try and get whole grain pasta, it's much healthier for you, and eat it in moderate portions; like a cup or so. But if you work out regularly, it shouldn't be too big of a problem; it hasn't been for me.
if you eat to much of it pasta is a carb, and when you eat to many carbs you eventually gain some weight from it
Past is good for health. But it is not good for health on a daily basis. I eat no more than 3 to 4 times in a month.
Pure carbohydrates which turn into sugar in your body. ~
yes regular pasta consumned alot does that as well as white bread it ends up in the middle of ur gut cause that carbs and sugar turns into fat and just ends up on ur tummy where ur abs should be and all
It would depend on how much you eat and how seditary you are - as long as you are not consuming more calories than you are burning, you are not going to gain weight (from fat, at least). On average, you're looking at about 200 cal per cup of cooked pasta.
Serve that with a little olive oil, garlic, vegetables and chicken, and you're in good shape. With tomato sauce, a little worse off, more so if it is commerical over home-made (there tend to be more sugars), and getting off the charts if you get a creamy-cheesy sauce.
In terms of your stomach, if you are to gain weight, and you are a man, that tends to be where your body prefers to start to store it. Women tend to be long the hips. But as long as, over time, you are balanced in consuming what you burn, you should be fine.
first of all the portion you eat matters a lot. if you eat more than a normal 1 serving size of pasta regularly it will cause weight gain. a 1/2 cup of cooked rice or pasta counts as 1 serving for everybody. in general, people underestimate calories in a meal by as much as 20%. if you exercise rigorously it is very easy to underestimate how much you are eating by at least 50%. that could amount to an extra day's worth of food!
secondly, you should choose pasta made from whole-grains instead of refined grains. it makes a difference because fresh whole-grain pasta contains more healthy antioxidants and fibre (keeps you full longer) than refined versions.
for more info on this check out these links:
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,71...
http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,71...