Pizza's not a "bad guy" anymore! - Diet & Nutrition Message Board

Magpiezoe · 07-23-2003, 06:54 AM

Hello, I am so happy! I just saw that pizza really is good for you on our local news station. They said that pizza one time per week drastically lowers the risk of digestive cancers and other certain cancers. I couldn't believe it, so I looked it up on CNN. Guess what? There was a study done by a Milan pharmacology center in Italy..."A study of 8,000 Italians found that regular pizza-eaters were 59 percent less likely to contract cancer of the esophagus, while the risk of developing cancer of the colon fell by 26 percent." How cool is that? I guess I'm going back to eating my homemade pizza once a week like I was doing before. I only stopped, because the cheese was getting kind of expensive. Since I didn't gorge myself and only had 2 slices on the week-end, I didn't gain any weight and didn't affect my cholesterol. Mange, mange!!!

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Magpie

CobaltBlue · 07-23-2003, 07:50 AM

Magpie,

I still (with affection) refer to pizza as "a diabetics nightmare," because of the astronomical glucose readings I would get after eating pizza. Granted back then it was loaded with a lot of fats (cheese, pepperoni, beef, saugsage) on a slab of carbs with some sugar-enhanced tomato paste. The one time I have had pizza in the last year was with wheat crust, half the cheese, and all vegetables on top.

Although the study linked decreased cancer with moderate pizza consumption, I only wonder what the impact was on heart disease? Someone else posted this a while back, but few of us could consume pizza in moderate amounts.

ramsemonius · 07-23-2003, 11:40 AM

Hey there.

I haven't confirmed this, but I've heard from several sources that the pizza in Italy is quite different from our Pizza here in the states. I've heard the crust is notably thinner and I'm certain that the cheeze in Italy has more CLA content as well, and we know CLA is an anti-cancer and anti-obesity agent. In any case, its an interesting study. I love pizza!

-Ramsemonius

CocaCola · 07-23-2003, 12:06 PM

ramsemonius I've heard that as well. I also heard that their pizza kicks North American pizza by a long mile.

That's an interesting study, and I suppose that if you don't have to worry about chloresterol then it'd be okay. But since it's home made pizza, its uaually much lower in fat. I made pizza this morning on whole wheat pitta bread.

I probably wouldn't recommend eating those high fat slices from some restaurants. I know there are some places where the saturated fat is like 8+ grams per slice!! Ouch

HappyCarnivore · 07-23-2003, 12:33 PM

Just for the record, It's "Mangia! Mangia!"

Us Italian-Americans are particular about our native tongue.

Oh, and yes, food altogether here in the United States is far different from food in Italy. Eggs here are absolute trash compared to what you can buy in Siena or Toscana.