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Originally Posted by
username79 

You are making this too complicated because you believe the wives tales and pseudoscience. This is why I found your idiotic responses to be worthy only of sarcasm.
1. Why you are stupid for claiming pasta is
only to be consumed by marathoners.
First, pasta is nutrition like any other food. Second, pasta is an excellent way of obtaining a significant amount of calories low in sodium and free of cholesterol. I make pasta from whole wheat that rates extremely low on the GI index, contains no cholesterol, no salt, and provides a good amount of dietary fiber.
2. Why you are stupid for isolating a specific food which is a staple of many healthy and successful diets, peoples, and nationalities and suggesting people should not consume it.
Overall caloric intake < calories expended = weight loss
Overall caloric intake > calories expended = weight gain
Please read the article
here and the press release
here. Or if you don't like that one, please read any of the countless others that have come to the same conclusion.
3. Recommendation
Recognize stupidity through introspection. Then shut the fuck up.
Such diplomacy, I feel honored

Reading comprehension:
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Originally Posted by Rikkar501
There is absolutely no reason your body needs that many carbs, unless you are preparing to run a marathon or something.
"Or something" means another activity that requires a very large amount of energy to be readily available. Could be field and track, a swimming competition; the point is that the average human being living their average life with moderate physical activity doesn't need the amount of carbs and undoubtedly large amounts of fat that accompanies most Italian style meals (bread sticks, cheese sauces, etc.).
Kudos to you for eating whole wheat pasta; I know alot of people can't stand the taste or texture and opt for the enriched wheat crap. But by your logic you eat pasta for the calories, low sodium, zero cholesterol. How about a cup of black beans which provides more calories, less sodium, more fiber, and more protein than one cup of whole wheat pasta? Go ahead, eat your pasta but know that there are better options readily available.
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Overall caloric intake < calories expended = weight loss
Overall caloric intake > calories expended = weight gain
This may work for people that are moderate-significantly overweight (the study used subjects with 25-40 BMI I believe), but what about the guy who wants to cut from 10% BF to 8% BF? Simply reducing calories won't be enough, as he is probably already eating clean to be at 10%. This is where the usefulness of low carb/high protein diets really come into play. You spout off the "calories in/calories out" rhetoric but fail to realize that the situation is not black and white.
Feel free to take all your nutrition advice from medical studies of overweight people, and I will continue to take my advice from fitness professionals and strength coaches who see their science working before their very eyes, every day.