Italian researchers: Pasta doesn't make you fat

The researchers say their findings show that people trying to lose weight are wrong to completely banish pasta from their diets, reports UPI, which notes that pasta sometimes gets the blame for weight gain when it’s used as a “vehicle for overly salty, sugary, fatty sauces.” A nutrition professor at the University of Reading tells the Telegraph that the results appear solid, with pasta intake in this case demonstrating adherence to the Mediterranean diet. “These results clearly show that it is wrong to demonize carbohydrates as the data clearly show that consumption of a carbohydrate-rich food such as pasta does not have an adverse effect on body weight,” he says.