eat *cold* pasta and lose some weight!!

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

Eating cold pasta causes your body to absorb fewer calories and experience a smaller blood glucose peak.  And reheating it is even better!  British investigators found that it reduced the rise in blood glucose levels by a whopping 50%.

 

In addition, if you cook some pasta and let it cool down, it becomes a "resistant starch" - meaning that it resists metabolic breakdown by the stomach enzymes and continues to the large intestine, where it acts more like fiber than starch/carbohydrate.  

 

Result?  Weight loss and avoidance of blood glucose issues (which make us feel so hungry after the rapid rise and fall of blood sugar levels)   

 

Anyone have some good pasta recipes?  

 

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29629761

 

 

[Tom Wetmore]

And I would guess that those of us who need to watch our intake of refined carbs might benefit. 

[joeb]

rudywoofs,

 

This was a very good post.  Thanks a lot.  I'm going to try this and see how it works for me as pasta is something that really makes my blood sugar skyrocket. 

 

As one good turn deserves another, here's something I've found that works for me.  Always cook potatoes with the skins on.  It somehow changes the starch and keeps my blood sugar from rising as rapidly as when potatoes are peeled and then cooked.  When potatoes are cooked this way I can eat potato salad and potato soup and use a quite a bit less insulin..

[Sophie Scholl]

I have hypoglycemia, and I find that using whole grain pasta as opposed to white pasta really helps.