DOUGH HELPS HEALTH
In Rio de Janeiro producers and experts compared
In 'World Pasta Day', when the whole world celebrates the goodness and under nutrition, pasta Brazil launches its challenge to obesity. The paste is celebrating its universality, its culture and its being synonymous with healthy eating during the appointment now in its 13th edition. To reiterate the virtues of this dish is now global and encourage consumption, the IPO (International organization pasta) with all'Abima (the Brazilian Association of pasta) and non-profit organization Oldways have called the 'States General' of the dough Rio de Janeiro October 25 to 27 for the fourth edition of the World Pasta Congress.
occasion will also place a scientific conference to update the Scientific Consensus Statement 'Healthy pasta meals', a document signed six years ago by some 40 leading experts worldwide in which the record was certified pulp, as part of the Mediterranean diet as a model for ideal food.
The world of the third millennium bear comparison with the scale. According to the WHO, the epidemic of overweight and obesity is getting worse: by 2015, worldwide 2.3 billion adults will be overweight and 700 million will be obese. And 80% of cases involve countries in the developing world. The more overweight and obesity that must also be analyzed for the complications of which they are responsible, such as cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes and for the further negative effects on national health systems in terms of economic and social development. Obesity is reduced to 7% of health spending in the U.S. and a variable percentage between 1 and 5% in the EU. For this attention and prevention policies have focused mainly on younger students.
While in Italy, where, according to data released in June 2010 by the Ministry of Health, is overweight or obese one in three children between 6 and 11 years, that ministry has prepared new guidelines to improve the quality of meals in school canteens where pasta and bread (alternating with rice barley and maize) are expected every day.
precisely with the objective of making the point about the present and the future of the pulp in the world are expected to Rio de Janeiro about 300 delegates from the main producing countries and consumers of pulp and opinion leaders of the prestigious world of medicine and science. Among the topics to be taken into consideration, the health benefits of traditional Mediterranean diet of carbohydrates and 'good' of the dough, its low glycemic index, 'weapon' that can be crucial in the prevention of obesity and diabetes.
