Wheat & Pasta bad- please explain

It's not out and out bad, but it is calorie dense, so if you don't measure your servings carefully it is very easy to go overboard. Also, certain people find it more difficult to lose weight when eating foods that are high in carbohydrates because of the way they are digested.

I joined 4 days ago and just learned pasta and wheat is fattening? Can someone please explain to me how whole wheat, and whole wheat pasta is bad for you? Or how much is too much? Since my children were born Ive been buyin whole wheat bread and feeding them pasta, ofcourse I indulge too. How bad is it?

All food is fattening if you eat too much. Make sure you weigh and measure all of your food and stay in budget. There's nothing wrong with eating pasta but it is very calorie dense so a little bit packs a lot of calories.

If you like it. Eat and stay within your goals.

The main problem is that a very small amount has a lot of calories. Once I started weighing pasta servings I found I had to cut back. It can cut into your daily limit too fast and its not as filling as you think it might be.

Even if you avoid wheat and use pasta made from rice - you have the same problem.

Don't buy in to the anti-carbohydrate hype around here.

As others have said, as long as you aren't over doing it, and you don't have a valid medical reason to avoid it, wheat/pasta/carbs are a perfectly normal part of a healthy balanced diet.

And if you are eating whole grains, even better.

wheat and grains are just bad period.

Bull!

You'll get a ton of good/bad on wheat. May I suggest reading Wheat Belly? The bottom line is that wheat isn't bad...the GMO wheat of today is a Frankenwheat.

Wheat is not GMO. They've worked on it but there is no GMO wheat available for farmers at this moment. Another fallacy put forward by Mr. Taubes to sell more books.

WRONG - All wheat is GMO, the dwarf wheat grown today is not what was grown prior to the 60's. The creator of it won a Nobel Peace prize for it because of the high yield and ending the threat of world hunger.

It's only GMO in the fact that they cross bred different wheats to get what we have now. There was no gene splicing from other species to allow for the spraying of chemicals like there is with corn and soybeans. I farm, I'd love to have a GMO wheat that was Round-up ready but it just doesn't exist.

Pretty much all the plant materials we eat today are GMO by the standards you're using. Farmers have been cross pollinating the best seed for centuries to produce the highest yielding varieties. Otherwise you'd be eating one kind of apple, one kind of pear, eating maize, etc. Just because something can be done quickly in a lab now instead of taking years in the field doesn't make it Frankenfood.

Eat shirataki noodles. 30 kcal a cup. I eat it every day.

wheat and grains are just bad period.

Nope.

As long as you don't have an allergy to it and eat a correct serving, there is nothing wrong with it. I love pasta and whole grain foods. I fit them into my day and eat a correct portion and am losing weight at a healthy pace and will be able to live this lifestyle when I'm done to maintain my weight.

Spaghetti squash to replace pasta. Had it last night with a chicken marinara sauce. I couldn't taste the difference. I'm sure I could if I ate it without a sauce.

You'll get a ton of good/bad on wheat. May I suggest reading Wheat Belly? The bottom line is that wheat isn't bad...the GMO wheat of today is a Frankenwheat.

Wheat is not GMO. They've worked on it but there is no GMO wheat available for farmers at this moment. Another fallacy put forward by Mr. Taubes to sell more books.

WRONG - All wheat is GMO, the dwarf wheat grown today is not what was grown prior to the 60's. The creator of it won a Nobel Peace prize for it because of the high yield and ending the threat of world hunger.

It's only GMO in the fact that they cross bred different wheats to get what we have now. There was no gene splicing from other species to allow for the spraying of chemicals like there is with corn and soybeans. I farm, I'd love to have a GMO wheat that was Round-up ready but it just doesn't exist.

Pretty much all the plant materials we eat today are GMO by the standards you're using. Farmers have been cross pollinating the best seed for centuries to produce the highest yielding varieties. Otherwise you'd be eating one kind of apple, one kind of pear, eating maize, etc. Just because something can be done quickly in a lab now instead of taking years in the field doesn't make it Frankenfood.

I disagree. Cross pollination in the field is drastically different than genetic modification in a lab. Just because it's not Round Up ready does not mean it's not genetically modified.

As you can see in this thread (and throughout this site), there are pretty divergent trains of thought on what constitutes
"bad" and "good" food.

I eat bread and pasta on a regular basis (had a tuna melt today and roasted veggies with pasta yesterday), mainly because they're cheap, I really like both, and I can't imagine trying to live the rest of my life without them. I don't believe that carbs are the enemy, I think too many calories in and too few calories out is.

But of course, you'll always find people who tout very specific lifestyles based on a book or a movie or Dr. Oz (*shudder*), and usually they are fired up about those things because that was what worked for them. In basically all cases though, those diets restrict calories indirectly through restricting one of the macros (usually carbs or fat). I just like to simplify my life and restrict the calories while aiming for a balanced mix of macros.

You'll get a ton of good/bad on wheat. May I suggest reading Wheat Belly? The bottom line is that wheat isn't bad...the GMO wheat of today is a Frankenwheat.

Wheat is not GMO. They've worked on it but there is no GMO wheat available for farmers at this moment. Another fallacy put forward by Mr. Taubes to sell more books.

WRONG - All wheat is GMO, the dwarf wheat grown today is not what was grown prior to the 60's. The creator of it won a Nobel Peace prize for it because of the high yield and ending the threat of world hunger.

It's only GMO in the fact that they cross bred different wheats to get what we have now. There was no gene splicing from other species to allow for the spraying of chemicals like there is with corn and soybeans. I farm, I'd love to have a GMO wheat that was Round-up ready but it just doesn't exist.

Pretty much all the plant materials we eat today are GMO by the standards you're using. Farmers have been cross pollinating the best seed for centuries to produce the highest yielding varieties. Otherwise you'd be eating one kind of apple, one kind of pear, eating maize, etc. Just because something can be done quickly in a lab now instead of taking years in the field doesn't make it Frankenfood.

I disagree. Cross pollination in the field is drastically different than genetic modification in a lab. Just because it's not Round Up ready does not mean it's not genetically modified.

You had better stop eating all vegetables then because they have pretty much all been bred through selection. Man made if you want. What are you going to eat now?

I joined 4 days ago and just learned pasta and wheat is fattening? Can someone please explain to me how whole wheat, and whole wheat pasta is bad for you? Or how much is too much? Since my children were born Ive been buyin whole wheat bread and feeding them pasta, ofcourse I indulge too. How bad is it?

No food is "all good" or "all bad." Many people, including myself, consider bread to be bad for dieting for many reasons. They're low in nutrients compared to other carb sources like fruits and veggies, and breads often have a high glycemic index. Many breads and pastas are sort of just empty calories which can lead some people to over eating. Some bread brands are marketed as "whole wheat" when in fact they actually are not much different from white bread.