Pasta makes you happy, helps you
sleep and helps you lose weight, an expert said on World Pasta
Day Wednesday.
"Enough of the false myths about pasta: It's not true you
can't it in the evening, and why should you ever deprive youself
of a nice carbonara? It stimulates the thyroid gland and also
boost mood," said endocrinologist and nutritionist Serena
Missori.
On Wednesday Barilla gave an award to the creators of "the
pasta of the future" after a competition involving 680 designers
from 124 countries.
Pasta maker's association AIDEPI said the most popular pasta
form was spaghetti.
If Italy was the place to be on pasta day, with free tasting
all over the Bel Paese, the iconic dish of the Mediterranean
diet was also celebrated worldwide with the hashtags
#WorldPastaDay and #Spaghetti.
One of the events was a farmers' market serving fettuccine in
San Diego.
According to the latest survey, one in five Italians enjoys
homemade pasta.
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