If two things are certain in this life they are that it is not fair and that if something tastes good, sooner or later someone will declare that it’s bad for you.
Yesterday a Milan research team studying the relationship between carbohydrate intake and coronary heart disease published, in the prestigious American medical journal Archives of Internal Medicine, the results of its study of 15,171 Italian men and 32,578 women over several years. They found that the intake of foods with a high glycemic index, such as white bread, rice and pizza can double the risk of heart disease, but only in women.
Lead researcher dott.ssa Sabina Sieri of Milan’s Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori says that more research needs to be carried out to ascertain the reason why men are less affected by glycemic foods, which raise blood sugar levels rapidly in women, thereby placing a strain on their hearts. It could be that men’s bodies process carbohydrates in a different way. Dott.ssa Sieri says that the culprits seem to be the “rapidly absorbed glycemics” and that pasta and fruit are safe.
Will you give up pizza?
