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Article: Science al Dente: in today's low-carb environment, a conference about pasta can be a divisive subject. Opinions on the importance of the glycemic index, low-fat diets and the staying power of low-carb diets vary widely. However, doctors, dieticians and scientists attending one recent conference say that eating pasta can be part of a healthy lifestyle.(ingredient challenges)
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- July 1, 2004
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Nowadays, one cannot enter a supermarket, quick-service or sit down restaurant without hearing or reading the words "low-carb." The phrase, by definition, deems foods like bread, cake and pasta as bad news. However, for some, low-carb is "the good news:" a gospel that invades national news sources and food choices. The birth of the low-carb phenomenon has put to task every definition of what characterizes a healthy diet--even to the extent that many are calling for an updated food guide pyramid.
However, one high-carb product, pasta, is fighting back. K. Dun Gifford, founder and president of The Oldways Preservation Trust, a Boston-based nonprofit think tank on ...