Is whole wheat pasta really healthier for you?!
Any suggestions or thoughts?????
Answers: I love pasta and veggies. But I usually can eat a bag of whole wheat pasta in 4 servings, rather than the 8 serv. size that it suggests. Since I'm not eating meat is this okay? Or am I sabotaging my goal to lose 5 more pounds by having whole wheat pasta for dinner some nights? I usually just add spinach and a tiny bit of grated parm.
Any suggestions or thoughts?????
Whole wheat pasta is healthier for you. The higher fiber content in whole wheat lowers your glycemic index. A low glycemic index means you don't get drastic drops of blood sugar, which in turn triggers the body into storing more fat.
Add a little extra virgin olive oil, a few chopped nuts, tofu or tempeh, and a little more parmesan to your pasta. You need some fat in your diet to keep your glycemic index low.
You also might try a pasta made with Jerusalem artichoke flour.
yes definitely is much more healthier, whole wheat pasta contains much more fibre than an ordinary pasta
Yes, whole wheat pasta is healthier for you. Whole wheat pasta is all natural, when regular pasta has to be enriched with vitamins. It would be a good idea to eat whole wheat pasta when you are trying to lose weight, since you will want to eat healthy.
Whole wheat flour is a powdery substance derived by grinding or mashing the wheat's whole grain. It is used in baking but typically added to other "white" flours to give nutrition, texture, fiber, and body to the finished product. Usually, whole wheat flour is not the main ingredients of baked goods, as it adds a certain "heaviness" which prevents them from rising as well as white flours. This adds to the cost per volume of the baked item as it requires more flour to obtain the same volume, due to the fewer and smaller air pockets trapped in the raised goods.
Nevertheless, it is possible to make a high-rising, light loaf of 100% whole wheat bread, so long as one increases the water content of the dough (the bran and germ in whole wheat absorb more water than plain white flour), kneads the dough for a longer period of time to develop the gluten adequately, and allows for a longer rise before shaping the dough. Some bakers let the dough rise twice before shaping. The addition of fats, such as butter or oil, and milk products (fresh milk, powdered milk, buttermilk, yogurt, etc.) can also greatly assist the rise.
The word "whole" refers to the fact that all of the grain (bran, germ, and endosperm) is used and nothing is lost in the process of making the flour. This is in contrast to white, processed flours, which contain only the endosperm. Because the whole flour contains the remains of all of the grain, it has a textured, brownish appearance.
Whole wheat flour has a shorter shelf life than white flour, as the higher oil content leads to rancidification. It is also more expensive.
"Brown" bread made from whole wheat flour is more nutritious than "white" bread made from white, refined flour, even though nutrients are added back to the white flour. This is because whole wheat bread is less refined, and retains more of the naturally-occurring vitamins and minerals. However, many brown breads do, in fact, contain a certain amount of white flour.
Wheat is a good source of calcium,Iron,fiber and other minerals like selenium.
So, yes, whole wheat pasta is better for you.
Of course it is healthier compared to normal pasta, BUT, if you eat it a lot, it won't really help, it still high on carbohydrate, eat more veggies, my meal usually contain at least 60% veggies and 40% or less carbohydrate or protein.
Meat is not that bad if you eat a lean one and eat it moderately, It is ok if you don't want to eat meat, however, you should substitute your protein source.
Of course, but whole multigrain pasta is even healthier (make sure it is whole multigrain and not just multigrain).
Try to incorporate legumes into your diet to balance out the amino acids. You don't have to include it with the pasta of course. I often have pasta for one or two meals and some kind of bean or tofu dish for the third meal.
Bunch of crap . . . the Italians have one of the healthiest diets in the world and most of their pasta is semolina or hard durham wheat. That whole wheat crap is something some veggie head thought up.
Whole grains are always a healthier option than refined grains. Losing weight is a function of burning more calories than you consume and you haven't given any information about your total caloric intake versus your activity level, so nobody can really say.